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“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…f compassionate immigration reform. How has that impacted your work? I get phone calls from LDS people who would identify themselves as politically conservative, but they say, “There’s this guy I know . . . Can you help him? He’s a really good guy.” People need to remember that there are many “really good guys” out there waiting for immigration reform. People coming to the US for work get villainized. “Illegal alien” is one of the most unbelieva…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ot. After that, he stayed more often after class, one day whipping out his phone to show me a photo of a white supremacist leader standing up in a convertible during what was obviously a white pride parade. The red-faced, fist waving man in the picture was flanked by two little girls sitting in the back seat, arms crossed with very pronounced frowns on their faces. “They don’t look all that happy,” I remarked to my student. “Those are my daughters…

Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

…le: these monsters are a five billion dollar industry. They appear in cell phone ads for Sprint, they chase runners in 5Ks, and they scare crowds at haunted houses and theme parks. With The Walking Dead and World War Z, zombies cemented their reign as the favored monster of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The zombie’s ubiquity begs for explanation, and there is no shortage of theories. David Denby, writing about World War Z …

Christian Atheism: The Only Response Worth its Salt to the Zimmerman Verdict

By J. Kameron Carter

…e convenience store with Skittles and a soft-drink and talking on his cell phone with his friend. Instead, all that Zimmerman could see was a hooded threat. And so, he deputized himself to be the police, and in that capacity shot Trayvon Martin dead. But more than just deputizing himself to act with police power (and this is the crucial point of Dr. Butler’s reflections), he deputized himself to stand in the place of god, to act in god’s name and…

Hobby Lobby Does Not Compel Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption, Legal Scholars Tell Obama

By Sarah Posner

…ble or unwilling to comply with those requirements. When spending taxpayer dollars the government should be permitted to favor – and indeed, should favor – employers who do not discriminate on invidious grounds, including sexual orientation and gender identity. The letter concludes, “Contrary to the suggestion of those supporting a license to discriminate in this context, it is the creation of a hierarchy of rights and an exclusion of LGBT individ…

The World’s Most Influential Yoga Teacher is a Homophobic Right-Wing Activist

By Andrea Jain and Michael Schulson

…t. With Ramdev as the spokesperson, sales are projected to hit one billion dollars in the 2017 fiscal year. (Ramdev claims not to have any direct financial stake in Patanjali Ayurved since he is, technically, a Hindu renouncer). For American observers, the frank alliance between spirituality and capitalism here can be a bit jarring. Clergy in the United States tend not to appear in TV commercials. Then again, plenty of religious figures make aggre…

Useless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness

By Alan Levinovitz

…e industry that, a cynic might say, transforms Eastern wisdom into Western dollars via the alchemical crucible of self-help. The Art of War, the Tao-Te-Ching, and other exotic classics are endlessly repurposed as business manuals, dating manuals, or quote-mines for calendars, served up by beaming gurus whose bios tend to emphasize spiritual intuition over formal education. The Tao of Happiness: Stories from Chuang Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey De…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ory.” One wonders whether the proliferation of unsorted images—on our smartphones and in proprietary clouds—might undermine our ability to let go of the past and construct more meaningful long-term memories. More than a mere problem of accuracy in storage and retrieval, memory requires the skillful exercise of selective judgment. It requires meaningful participation in decisions about what and how to remember, as well as what and how to forget. Th…

Evangelicals Getting on the Trump Train

By Paul Harvey

…ic. It means getting assistance from groups that plan to spend millions of dollars mobilizing voters, people who lead influential faith-based organizations and Republican activists who will help craft the party’s platform at the national convention this summer. The report continues on how evangelical voters might be willing to take a “leap of faith,” looking past Trump’s multiple marriages and long history as a self-styled ladies’ man, his amateur…

The Risk of Teaching Theology in a Public University: A Response

By Martin Kavka

…ded a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, totaling $1 million dollars, to support programming at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR) devoted to “public theology.” At approximately the same time, the Religious Studies Program at UC–Berkeley declared that it would not accept new majors during the 2015–16 academic year, while a group of faculty overhauled the curriculum. Large institutions are complex things. There was n…