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A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…that Ellen G. White, nineteenth-century prophet of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, suffered a childhood head injury that affected her temporal lobes in such a way as to produce her subsequent religious visions. That example immediately struck me as a curious incursion of history into the laboratory. To be sure, even as an outsider, I was aware that a thriving set of conversations exists on the borders of neuroscience and religion. There are t…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…ligion News Service named him, Sullivan, and Vanderslice among the “twelve most influential Democrats in the nation on faith and values politics and issues.” While the Democrats have come a long way in four years, Strider said, those efforts cannot match decades of organizing. “We’re going to see continued ‘bringing into the fold’ faith organizing within campaigns and within the party,” he told an audience at the National Press Club last month. In…

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

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

I. Beauty In 1935, 32-year-old Leni Riefenstahl created one of the most beautiful films of her generation—a motion picture that remains a standard reference for film studies. Exquisite attention to stylistic detail, superb editing, and a masterful control of the camera produced a classic film, Triumph of the Will. Adolf Hitler called the film an “incomparable glorification of the power and beauty of our Movement.” Triumph was a documentary of the…

Pro-Choice, Progressive Jewish Groups Weigh In On Kagan

By Sarah Posner

…ink she has an exceptionally brilliant legal career and record and she’s demonstrated a great understanding of the impact of law on lives, and a real commitment to civil rights,” Ratzen said. As to Kagan’s record on reproductive rights, and the pro-choice community’s so far lukewarm reaction to her, Ratzen said, “President Obama made a real clear promise and commitment that he was looking for a nominee that supported the right ofprivacy, specifica…

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

…uld be allowed to keep their temple recommends—certificates that allow the most worthy and devoted Mormons to participate in the faith’s sacred temple rites. Nor was he all that comfortable with Melanie teaching Sunday School, even though she assured him she had no interest in making waves about the Proposition 8 debate—or any other controversial issue—in the class she taught each week. Facing the prospect of being denied access to the temple and…

Accused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal

By Michael Schulson

…eir penchant for business, repeatedly declined to disavow David Duke, and, most recently, hired a media executive whose website was recently described by a former employee as “a cesspool of the alt-right…a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.” And now there’s the case of Joseph Schmitz, one of Trump’s top national security advisors. On Thursday, McClatchyDC reported that Daniel Meyer, an intelligence official, has filed a formal co…

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

By Tom Bartlett

…call-in show fomented doomsday mania, suffered a stroke soon afterward and mostly disappeared from sight. The press coverage, which had been intense in the weeks leading up to May 21, 2011, dwindled to nothing. The story, as far as most people were concerned, was over. But I wanted to know what happens next. If you’re absolutely sure the world is going to end on a specific day, and it doesn’t, what do you do? How do you explain it to yourself? Wha…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…take any more of this shit.” As if to make Raushenbush’s point, two of the most extreme anti-gay American activists, Scott Lively and Peter LaBarbera, have announced that they will launch a new organization “whose purpose is to unify and coordinate pro-family groups around the United States and the world to more effectively oppose the now global LGBT agenda.” Uganda: Museveni at ‘war’ with ‘homosexual lobby’ President Yoweri Museveni has reportedl…

Joyless Primaries Grind On

By Joanna Brooks

Last week, I was talking to an unorthodox Mormon friend about his strained relationship with his sixty-something, highly observant LDS father. My friend described a brief, tension-laden phone call between father and son, wedged into a few free minutes after a church meeting. “Now, I’m going to serve my family,” said the father, bringing the call to a close. “Because that’s what I do.” And Mitt Romney is going to serve his country. Because that’s…