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National Review’s Kevin Williamson Comes Out Against Daughters, Misunderstands Science

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r “cash in big” and produce a whole lot of offspring himself, or else be shut out, but female offspring will probably go on to crank out a predictable number of their own offspring every year. In such a situation, mothers in good condition can afford to take the risk on male offspring, because they’re playing with the “house money” that nature has given them. Meanwhile, mothers in poor condition should favor female offspring, because in this scena…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…kinds of things you’d probably say, too, if you took a moment to think about the question: dying peacefully and without pain (or at least with well-managed pain), dying in old age, dying at home, drifting off to sleep never to wake, dying at peace with loved ones, and, if medical support is necessary, then dying in hospice care is preferable to dying in an ICU. In contrast, an undesirable death to my students―and probably to you―includes such thi…

A Rationalist’s Ghost Story

By Gary Jansen

…the anonymity of the people who lived before us, but there’s something beautiful about it too, how life just keeps going. We can all sometimes forget about that. I know I have. I know I have taken people for granted, but I try to be a little more aware now of the life around me. Is there anything you had to leave out? Ann Beattie wrote a terrific line in one of my favorite short stories of all time, “Snow.” This is what she said: “Any life will s…

None Means None (Not Atheist, Agnostic, Unbeliever…)

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ticular is so great that it is impossible for us not to imagine those without a formal, institutional religious identification or affiliation as necessarily being unbelievers. Certainly, we can see the sensationalism of the original RNS headline as it made its rounds as expressing some level of anxiety that this is the case. But the tenaciousness of this imaginary label seems also to extend to unbelievers themselves, who have often been just as qu…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…ow to appeal to the unchurched in the north or squeezing a few more folks out in the south. Given that some leaders are calling for getting tougher on the doctrine, if not the SBC’s long-standing entanglement with conservative politics, the first option seems like a long shot. There are only slightly fewer than 500,000 Southern Baptists in California, for example, which sounds like a lot until you realize that it’s about 1 percent of the populatio…

Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection

By Jacob J. Erickson

…aries. A documentary film crew is here setting up a camera behind me that puts my iPhone to shame. Before us are pools of water, shrubbery, and larger bottles filled with a vegetable milk mixture. Suddenly, ten to fifteen baby elephants—the first group—come running down the hill for their food and bottles. It is seriously cute. And the crowd gasps and coos and takes as many pictures as they can manage. The orphaned elephants grab their bottles wit…

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…ence the world in the same way as my transgender brothers and sisters do. But I do try to speak out against that oppression, and I just don’t think we do enough of that. What do you hope that readers of your book will take away from reading it? I hope that they will see that I tried to write a book because I love the LGBTQ community, because I love my black community, and I’m trying to work against the intersections of oppression against both thes…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…and anxieties of this new tech through science fiction,” Hardawar points out, “but now it’s on a much smaller and more intimate scale.” But humans won’t be displaced by androids. As fascinating as this new wave of sci-fi is, it misses something important: our robotic usurpers are already here, they just don’t look like us. Any future involving the displacement of humans most likely belongs to “theroids,” a vast menagerie of mechanical beasts. Rob…

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, and Pro-Home Birth

By Katherine Don

…n turn affords them the opportunity to publicly advertise their services. But in South Dakota, she says, “there are women who aren’t interested in a Christian approach to midwifery care, and there are very few options for them that are out in the open. In Montana, there are more options in general for midwifery care, including whether you want a religious midwife.” (A similar border-crossing situation exists in Wisconsin, a state that recognizes C…

Religion Round-Up: What’s Going on in Religion Around the World

By Diane Winston

…this community over the years, and we hear mostly their characterizations put out by critics or people who’ve left the community,” she told interviewer Bob Garfield. “And what you can see when you’re there at the ranch is that these women were pretty outspoken about their making a choice to live this way.” Adams is right: people should be able to speak for themselves and there are usually more than two sides to every story. She is correct to remin…