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The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex

By Andrea R. Jain

…spiritual ones. This particular approach to the body is detectable throughout popular culture, but especially serves as a cornerstone of that infamous and growing “alternative” to religious orthodoxies: spirituality. The Pew Research Center has testified to the growth of the “religiously unaffiliated,” which they have dubbed the “nones.” While I question their conclusions regarding the extent to which the unaffiliated are actually religious or spi…

Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

By Andrea R. Jain

…—i.e., deconstructing what are taken for granted as historical or social truths that buttress white supremacy. We should also avoid simplifying the historical narrative around yoga’s global dissemination and popularization. Gandhi and Wolff, for example, suggest the reasons yoga became popular are tied up with colonialism. Several studies (for example, here and here) confirm this account by documenting the early history of modern yoga as a respons…

RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy

By Tom Davis

…ho doesn’t feel the need to consult anyone. In other words, a moral agent. Without such empathy, Rick Warren’s statements about abortion have a helicopter feel to them—they hover over the complexities of a woman’s life, but never land. And without appreciating those complexities, neither understanding nor compassion is possible. However broad, however generous your agenda, you cannot leave women out of the divine demand for justice….

‘Miracle’ in Manila

By Jonathan T Chow

…before the Senate. “We are all hoping for a good and dignified and bright future, but this bright and dignified future will not come if we will not take any action. If we let all the other people do it for us, it will not happen.” Drawing from the store of patriotic images, he spoke first of his love for Jose Rizal, considered to be the father of Filipino nationalism. He also spoke of being particularly inspired by Centesimus Annus, Pope John Pau…

Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.

By Daniel Schultz

…nics even less than those groups do! Other surprises: while Americans without a religious faith routinely come in as one of the most liberal segments of society, when it comes to Covid vaccines, they’re right in the middle of the pack. Jews are by far the most likely to be vaccine accepters at 85%, and Hispanic Protestants the least, at 43%. Likewise, while Republicans whose primary sources of news are conservative outlets are more likely to be he…

The Conservative Bible Project: Looking for Conservative Diamonds in a Liberal Dung-Hill

By Thomas Fabisiak

…lars and readers as problematic. In addition to making unfounded claims about the author of the gospel of Mark’s feelings about young girls, the translators maintain that “unclean spirit” should be translated as “Satan,” that “cast lots,” should be translated as “gambling,” that “holy spirit,” should be translated “divine guide,” and that logos, or “word,” should be translated “truth.” Some of the translators have even suggested that the title “Ph…

Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think

By Seth Sanders

…ial in bringing Hasidism to the masses, describes political Zionism as an out-and-out denial of central tenets of Judaism; namely that, because it’s the prerogative of God alone to bring a messiah, and because human activity merely usurps his role, placing the state in the role of God indicates that “the Zionists must give nationalism precedence over the Torah.” And rejection of Zionism on the part of many traditional Jews was hardly confined to C…

Francis Must Make Changes to Have a Real Effect

By Patricia Miller

…ing Benedict’s papacy. In Gallicho’s words it takes “nerve” to point this out. But these numbers are key because they’re about Catholics’ relationship to and practice of their faith, which is the heart of the matter, not about the personal popularity of Pope Francis. And on the issue of mass attendance, if that isn’t a good marker of how successful Francis is in reviving the church, what is? Is Gallicho predicting that mass attendance will increas…

Conservative Evangelical Eric Metaxas, Doing Twitter Theology, Claims ‘Jesus Was White’

By Eric Vanden Eykel

…erent form. Some claim that we have lost the ability to talk charitably about race, but I would argue that we have never been able to talk charitably about race. We have done a fantastic job, however, of ignoring the issue and pretending that all is well. And all is definitely not well. The subtitle of Dr. Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility book is “Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism.” When all is said and done, the true value of…

Gen Z’s Religious Affiliation Stats Are Confusing … But Only When Viewed From a Christian-Centric Perspective

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…if you read them from a limited, Christian-centric perspective. Asking about belief “without a doubt” implies that belief and doubt are mutually exclusive, not a pair of related and often fluctuating mental habits. The concept of “some higher power,” while assuming a theological hierarchy that’s not relevant to all traditions, seems to be perceived as a larger category than “God,” and thus an easier proposition for some Gen Z survey subjects to s…