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Step Right Up And Get Your Low-Priced ‘Pro-God Content’! Donald Trump Enters the Bible Business

By Karen E. Park

…t,” we’re told on the order form, “to take to church, a bible study, work, travel, etc.” It has a brown leather-like cover with an embossed US Flag curling across the bottom. Thoughtfully, it features large type, for those Trump supporters whose bifocals aren’t always enough. In his sales video Trump says: “I want to have a lot of people have it. You have to have it for your heart, for your soul.” Why? Because “Religion and Christianity are the bi…

Mormon-Born Daya Mata Typifies American Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain

…tion Fellowship, was the second Indian guru (Vivekananda was the first) to travel from India to the United States and to attract a large following of Americans interested in yoga. These gurus taught renditions of yoga that were radically different from the systems of stretching and muscle-building postures meant to function as fitness routines that we so often associate with yoga in the United States today. They were also radically different from…

Magic v. Science: Doctor Who Part III

By Gabriel Mckee

…e may cope if it turns out that science is no more able to accomplish time travel or teleportation than magic is. Henry Jenkins_______________ What disturbs me about “Vampires of Venice” is the breeziness with which the story passes over a potentially devastating moment. The Doctor has the opportunity to save Isabella and fails to do so. She is later killed, and her father sacrifices himself, presumably having lost the w…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…position to judge the sinfulness of the poor. In my book, Names, Not Just Numbers: Facing Global AIDS and World Hunger, I try to share the voices of the voiceless. I believe people respond more to stories than to statistics. I know the people in this world who are HIV positive and those who are hungry and I feel compelled to awaken myself and others to their plight. One thing that is notable about your career is the relation between academic work…

Fake Rabbi Showdown

By Peter Manseau

…me a business card that read, “Rabbi Dr. Mordehi Waldman: Have Shofar Will Travel.” He had enjoyed 15 minutes of fame a few years back, when he appeared at a reception held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building and blew his shofar to announce the coming of the messiah just before Moon had himself crowned “humanity’s Savior” and “returning Lord.” After journalist John Gorenfeld wrote about it in June 2004, the event became a major embarrassment for…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…others who won’t have to walk, they can come along in cars and buses, will travel to every village and camp and city and small town and kibbutz and moshav and to the prisons and the hospitals and the schools and universities to spread the word. Right now they are still whispering and passing notes in their own secret bilingual language, but all they have to do is stay friends and keep believing it can happen and grow up a little and the time will…

Father Roy Bourgeois: Connecting Political Violence with Vatican Discrimination

By Kate Childs Graham

…mero, four US Churchwomen, and countless others. Every November, thousands travel to Fort Benning to protest the SOA and promote nonviolence throughout Latin America and the world. On August 9, 2008, Father Bourgeois attended and gave the homily at the ordination of Janice Sevre-Duszynska—a woman ordained within the Roman Catholic Womenpriest (RCWP) movement. At a time when the US bishops are cracking down on men and women religious who take part…

5 Reasons That Cartoons Are the 21st Century’s Great Metaphysical Playground

By Ilana E. Strauss

…an alien. Half of one Rick and Morty episode can be about interdimensional travel, and the other half about a teenager upset with her parents, and that’s okay. This sort of weirdness means writers don’t need to separate the mundane and the transcendental. It means that, when his sister threatens to run away from home, Morty can point to his own grave in the backyard and explain that he and Rick once bailed on their own reality and came to this one…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

Supernatural Drama ‘Evil’ Provides No Easy Answers to Questions of Faith, Reason, and the Nature of Evil

By Michael F. Pettinger

…f the Saints looks more like MI6, with two young priestly protagonists who travel the globe like a pair of 007s, combatting a sinister group that seeks to infiltrate the highest levels of the hierarchy. While these fantasies focus almost completely on clerics at the highest levels of the Church, Evil presents a more mundane world of parish priests whose struggles mirror those of ordinary working people—too much to do, office politics, and lots of…