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The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…ral years, postponing surgery partly out of fear that I could be that rare patient for whom something goes wrong, partly out of concern that my life was too busy to take time out for the procedure and recovery, and partly out of sadness stemming from my perception that an artificial hip signaled an irreversible loss of physical integrity. During those years, I wasn’t just frustrated that I couldn’t control the constant hurt, I was also mildly emba…

A Match Made in Hell: Demons Have Become a Serious Force in US Politics — But We’ve Seen This Show Before

By Michael E. Heyes

…sharp focus as the United States entered the Civil War. Since Lincoln had participated in Spiritualist seances, he became the target of accusations that he had intentionally colluded with demons. In the provocatively titled Interior Causes of the War: The Nation Demonized, and Its President a Spirit-Rapper, published in 1863, Lincoln is accused of being in league with the “familiar spirits” of Leviticus and the “Prince of the Power of the Air” of…

Bonnaroo Dispatches: Stages

By E. David Morgen

…nce, told us afterward, “You feel something else. You just feel yourself.” Participants tell us repeatedly that no one judges anyone else during these sessions. Off to the side of the crowd, sitting against a tree, sits Laura Beth Circy, the only person whom we will see in our four days here reading a Bible. Circy has come to Bonnaroo with a friend working in one of the booths, and she describes herself as someone familiar with the excesses of the…

Bonnaroo 3: With a Buzz in Our Ears

By E. David Morgen

…ree-part series on Bonnaroo. You can find Part One here, or click here for Part Two.] It is thirty minutes past midnight, and we are sitting in the dirt among 2,000 or so music lovers in “That Tent” of the Bonnarooo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. Somewhere, the iconic band Pearl Jam is ending a set at the festival’s largest stage (called the “What” stage) in front of a crowd that must total 40-50,000. But we have opted out of he…

Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon

By Kaya Oakes

…t their post-institutional faith is still a work in progress, for the most part these writers have departed religion without much in the way of regret. More than a few of the essays share a narrative arc which likely reveals something about what happens when a person is liberated from the rigid nature of a religion with an extremely limited world view. These often begin with the person remembering the breaking-point moment, then explain how the in…

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

By Andrea R. Jain

…s Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World and what it represented to many participants in the 1960s British-American counterculture whose countless spiritualities subverted the social status quo through bodily and community actions. As rain poured down on Trump’s inauguration, I looked at my like-minded friends, family and colleagues and quoted John 11:35: “Jesus wept.” Will the spiritual people, moved by compassion and troubled by the imminent t…

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

By Andrea R. Jain

…and Wolff’s arguments. Instead, like a butcher shaving fat from a carcass, Parke carefully cuts and pastes quotes on cultural appropriation to present for his readers a very simple, and misleading, picture: professors call yoga practitioners white supremacists. A careful and thorough reading of Gandhi and Wolff’s arguments, however, leaves the responsible reader reflecting on the suggestion that white Americans practicing yoga should continue to d…

RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy

By Tom Davis

…ly among the poor of Africa. He is a person of generous spirit and great empathy. So it is particularly sad that his empathy does not extend to women who struggle with the issue of abortion. The mega-popular megachurch pastor comes from a long line of Southern Baptist preachers. In 1980 he began the Saddleback Church with a tiny congregation who brought lawn chairs to basement meetings. His obvious talents and experimental programs led the church…

‘Miracle’ in Manila

By Jonathan T Chow

…hly equal number of religious brothers and sisters. Several hundred people packed the pews and dozens more squeezed into the space in the back of the church, with news crews roving the aisles. Before the opening procession, the emcee led us in the Angelus prayer. The Mass then opened with a mournful-sounding dirge in Tagalog, “Buksan Ang Aming Puso” (“Open Our Hearts”). The readings for the Mass centered on the theme of justice and obedience to G…

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

By Daniel Schultz

…ciety, 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 hesitant or resistant, Fox News viewers aren’t actually the worst on this score. Fans of channels such as Newsmax or OANN fare worse, but even they are edged…