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Five Must-Reads on the “Nones”: A Tipping Point in American Religion and Spirituality

By Elizabeth Drescher

…. Goldman, American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege (New York: New York University Press, 2012) and Jeffrey J. Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). Esalen Institute, a retreat center formed in 1962 near Big Sur, California, is at once on the margins and at the center of late modern American spirituality. Early spiritual experimentation at Esalen popularized prac…

When the ‘Biblical View’ for Evangelicals Was That Life Begins at Birth

By Jonathan Dudley

…by evangelical publishing houses followed this translation, including the New King James (1982), New Living Translation (1996), and Today’s New International Version (2005). As a proxy for broader scholarly opinion on this re-translation, Smith looks at translations produced since then by non-evangelical Bible publishers. Other Protestant Bibles continued to translate the passage as “miscarriage” or “miscarry,” including the New Revised Standard…

We Were Powerless: Addiction, the Will, and the Evangelical Roots of the Twelve Steps

By John Blevins

…suddenly stalled as clinical medicine was unable to account for the perplexing existence of addiction, or to find effective clinical interventions to treat it. For a time, psychology seemed to hold the promise of bridging the religious and the medical by articulating a theory for the etiology and treatment of addiction; but by the 1930s a figure no less prominent than Carl Jung had come to see that promise as fallacy and to state that hopelessnes…

New Report Shows Dems are Far More Religiously Diverse Than GOP — Though One (A)religious Group Remains Woefully Underrepresented

By Chrissy Stroop

…turn. As the Pew Research Center’s write-up on the religious makeup of the new Congress puts it, “the U.S. Congress remains largely untouched by two trends that have long marked religious life in the United States: a decades-long decline in the share of Americans who identify as Christian, and a corresponding increase in the percentage who say they have no religious affiliation.” Specifically, the new Congress’s membership is over 87% Christian, w…

I Don’t Think ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Means What You Think it Means: A Counterargument

By Daniel Schultz

…ovie too, and in the willingness of many women to speak openly about the sexual abuse they have experienced. Things are changing, permanently. Yes, the people who would like to hold back the tide are in charge, for now. But they’ve lost all legitimacy, and what we know about illegitimate regimes is that they don’t last always. It’s inspirational, amazing and not a little unnerving to watch as people claim power one bold step at a time. There’s som…

Global Warming Denialists the New Creationists?

By Lauri Lebo

…ists being persecuted for findings that are not in keeping with the orthodoxy. We think analyzing and evaluating scientific evidence is a good thing, whether that is about global warming or evolution.” As the New York Times article suggests, the strategy’s roots are in the 2005 Cobb County, Ga. case, in which the school board there put warning stickers on biology books, saying evolution is “not just a theory, not a fact.” A judge struck down the w…

New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense

By Kelli D. Potter

…pproach. Even if the Gods and Goddesses of Mormonism can have “celestial sex” and produce sexed spiritual offspring, why assume that they wouldn’t produce sexually “ambiguous” spiritual offspring? And, as scholar Taylor Petrey and I have argued in separate papers, there are other ways to interpret Mormon theology that are more plausible than the theology in the Proclamation. The real reason for the Proclamation, of course, was to help stop gay mar…

But What About the Parents? New York Times Falls Into the Anti-Trans ‘Parents’ Rights’ Trap

By Chrissy Stroop

…local government actors—including teachers and school administrators—from “promoting homosexuality” or teaching “the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.” This policy is now widely recognized as having done immense harm to gay minors, and we risk doing the same to trans minors—and indeed any and all LGBTQ and other at-risk minors—if we persist in treating “parents’ rights” to determine their children’s beliefs and ide…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…urvival of his father’s conversion to Lutheranism? Holland implies that Marx’s passion for cosmic renewal and social justice ought to point to the crucified lord, yet Marx himself attributes it to the “biblical prophets”! What’s become of the decisive impact of the “new and momentous understanding” of the crucified Christ? Holland then alludes to Darwin’s concern for social reform to alleviate the plight of the poor. Indeed, this too might well sh…

The Master: “It’s Not the L. Ron Story”

By Joseph Laycock

…ch the Church of Scientology had paid me to write such things. Anderson’s exploration of new religious movements has run up against a similar hermeneutic of “us vs. them.” One article crowed that The Master would be “the biggest fictional middle finger ever flown” at Scientology. When film critic Rex Reed slammed the film as “pretentious sermon,” a commenter suggested that Reed was likely a Scientologist himself. In response to journalists who see…