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Undercover at Falwell’s Liberty University, Finding Common Ground

By Nathan Schneider

…the endless homophobia that passes for ordinary conversation among Liberty students, though he also fell short of speaking out against it at the time. When he returned, he was still a happy, post-everything Brown student. But he was still praying, even if not quite believing. We’re meant to gather that the experience was something he’d always fondly take with him, like “the world’s easiest metaphor”: the ineradicable residue of the Jesus fish that…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…o (and 1-9, too), spread to Europe. This is why, in the Arab world, Arabic numbers are called ‘Indian numbers,’ and why, in the West, ‘Indian numbers’ are called ‘Arabic numbers.’ In India they’re just known as numbers. No matter what they’re called, I think we can all agree they make life a lot easier. 2. Coffee Muslims invented coffee, and coffee is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies. At best it goes cold. In fact, one of the reasons coff…

Islam, Essential to America?

By Scott Korb

…rception that Islam is essentially violent. In the title is my answer: The students and scholars of Zaytuna believe in the light of knowledge and unequivocally condemn the fire that comes with violence. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I come from a small town in the Midwest, where “Moslem” is still the preferred pronunciation. The people from my hometown were one specific audience. They represent a lot of America. I wrote fo…

Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?

By Sunnivie Brydum and Evan Derkacz

…ppearance. Yet, despite all this, and despite the fact that, as Middlebury student Will DiGravio noted, “Hundreds of students and alumni signed letters calling Murray’s appearance at the college unacceptable and unethical, and over 55 faculty members requested that President Patton not introduce ‘a discredited ideologue,’” the school went ahead with the engagement as planned. In his largesse, Sullivan does grant that “protests against Murray are c…

‘Soul of Yoga’ at Stake in Texas Regulation Push

By Andrea R. Jain

…is argue that yoga is a “way of life” that is “handed down from teacher to student” in the “sacred space” of a yoga studio. They point to yoga’s vastness, arguing that no government has the necessary resources to understand or regulate such a complex system. J. Brown, a yoga advocate in New York, argues that yoga is “sacred,” that it is an “all-encompassing whole Truth,” and that it functions to explore the “self, health, and life.” A broader eval…

You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

By John Stoehr

…erceptual psychology by Harvard researchers that went like this: A college student stops a professor on campus to ask for directions. While the professor is explaining where to go, two workmen walk between them carrying a large door, blocking the professor’s view. He doesn’t see that one of the workmen switches places with the college student. By the time they part ways, the professor has failed to notice he began the encounter speaking with one p…

“The Camp Is a Ceremony”: A Report From Standing Rock

By Marion Grau

…at closed restaurants and college food services. Later, when I was a grad student in New Jersey, the international students on campus staged our own improvised Thanksgiving, with our own cultural foods, mostly to stave off the sense of being left out of the celebration. As a foreigner, one is often left out of the traditions that most signify a culture. The only positive I have found in my years in the US is being introduced to pumpkin pie—and ev…

Pagan Martyrs, Murderous Monks: Agora Hits US Shores

By Nathan Schneider

…r Hypatia, drops a cloth stained with her menstrual blood at the foot of a student who seeks to woo her (a style of abstinence-only education today’s advocates might do well to copy). Despite every indication that what you’re watching is a standard Hollywood period epic, you begin to doubt that it will ever get to the obligatory love scene. If you happened to read Hypatia’s Wikipedia page on the way to the theater, you might even begin to fear for…

Talking Religion at 30,000 Feet

By Michael J. Altman

…ey often tip people off. A friend of mine, another religious studies Ph.D. student, tells the story of the time he was reading Isis Unveiled in a local coffee shop. He was approached by a very excited man with an interest in Theosophy and other sorts of New Thought systems who talked his ear off for an hour. My friend is Catholic and was reading the book as a bit of research for some project or another. The encounter between my Catholic friend and…

Democratic Women Walk Out of “Freedom of Religion” Hearing

By Sarah Posner

…hearing room and questioned witnesses. I’ll detail that later. FURTHER UPDATE AND CORRECTION: Maloney and DeLauro did question the witnesses. Some additional detail to the information above, Fluke is a law student at Georgetown, as is the woman whose medical condition she discussed. (I originally reported she was an employee.) Fluke is affiliated with Law Students for Reproductive Justice….