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A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…en G. White, suddenly thrust into the speculations of a pediatric neurologist studying temporal lobe epilepsy, all because she had been hit in the face by a rock when she was nine years old. Perhaps there is, indeed, a conversation to be had not only between religion and neuroscience, but also, more specifically, between American religious history and American neuroscience. By way of proposition and broad outline, I want to suggest three conversat…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…ual minorities, and reproductive health and justice. The religious left is still struggling to find an organizing and base-building model, while the center-right continues to dominate the conversation and capture the attention of politicians. A new book, Dispatches from the Religious Left, edited by the journalist Frederick Clarkson, attempts to start the conversation—though by its own admission it’s merely a start, not a blueprint. Part of that s…

Mother (Nature) Will Eat You: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…microphone booms that become visible in shots, and a precedence of minimalist staging, especially in Dogville and Manderlay—though both were striking in their lighting and set design. Antichrist alludes to these anti-beauty sentiments: There are a number of handheld shots, and some curious breaks with the 180-degree rule, but those are early on in the film and it becomes the content, not the form, that is so disturbing in the latter half of the fi…

Pro-Choice, Progressive Jewish Groups Weigh In On Kagan

By Sarah Posner

…she will uphold the fundamental values that our Movement supports.” In the statement, Saperstein called Kagan “a trailblazer with a stellar reputation,” and urged swift Senate action on the nomination. In addition, he noted that the RAC had worked with Kagan “on an array of religious freedom, civil rights, and women’s rights issues” when she served in the Clinton administration and “found in her someone passionate in her commitment to constitution…

Praying To The God Of The SUV

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…early or came in on a day off. If God has granted us free will, then God must stand back and let us use it. Any other action means that we are simply automatons. There would be no need for free will if God is simply manipulating us in each moment. The free will exercised that day by the hijackers didn’t come out of the blue. The attacks were in response to what they saw as American arrogance in the world and failed foreign policies in the Middle E…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…opposed their church’s stance on Proposition 8. When Mormons for Marriage started posting videos of Mormons sharing their thoughts on the anti-same-sex marriage campaign, Melanie felt compelled to contribute her own. During the 2000 Proposition 22 campaign in California, she had remained silent but feared that her silence signalled her consent. This time, after prayer, she felt directed to do it differently. So she sat down in a friend’s living r…

Accused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal

By Michael Schulson

…the Department of Defense. Meyer’s complaint, which apparently draws on testimony from at least one other senior Pentagon official, describes Schmitz boasting that he had fired “the Jews” and lecturing a colleague “on the details of concentration camps and how the ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews.” Speaking with McClatchyDC, Schmitz maintained his innocence. What’s particularly striking, though, is the way that Schmitz made an appeal t…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…ence that caused them to quit their jobs, alienate friends and family, and stand on street corners absorbing abuse from passers-by. There is something else going on. It’s been noted by scholars who study apocalyptic groups that believers tend to have analytical mindsets. They’re often good at math. I met several engineers, along with a mathematics major and two financial planners. These are people adept at identifying patterns in sets of data, and…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…ic service,” although they would not be obligated to do so. The Saturday posting states that an “informal kind of prayer, at the request of the couple, might be appropriate,” with “the assumption that any prayer will be accompanied by pastoral discussion of the church’s teaching and their reasons for departing from it.” India: Out LGBT people vulnerable under recriminalization BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reports this week on the violent consequences o…

Joyless Primaries Grind On

By Joanna Brooks

…AC money, and delivering few surprises: Romney continues to win the Northeast and West, Santorum the Bible Belt. Ohio turned out just about the way the best prognosticators in the game predicted. There’s been nothing so dramatic to punch up the storyline as the anti-Mormon flare-ups we witnessed late last summer and fall. In fact, while evangelical Christians continue to opt for Santorum as the not-Romney, there is little solid data that isolates…