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Science Mike Building a “Christian Science” Liturgy for the Nones

By D. Ashley Campbell

…in religious ideas, but do not want to belong to an institution. In her research for The Nones Are Alright, Oakes says she encountered folks who identified with a Christian identity, but did not go to church. This is the population McHargue and Gungor belong to and seek to speak to through The Liturgists. “It is a mass disaffiliation movement. It is not a secularization movement,” McHargue said about the rising number of religiously unaffiliated….

Five Must-Reads on the “Nones”: A Tipping Point in American Religion and Spirituality

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ng, antebellum American democracy, arguing that the emphasis on the inward search among the Metaphysicals was closely tied to a progressive politics and praxis, including a renewed practical reverence for nature. His work suggests that a closer attention to what contemporary spiritual practice may say about the developing political sphere is perhaps more important than efforts to decode and direct the political leanings of unaffiliated spiritual p…

Love the Compassion Dogs, Hate the Anti-Gay Theology?

By Sean O'Neil

…rbored that hatred, may be provoked to rewrite, or at least reconsider, their theologies and politics of sexuality. Regardless, a much wider swath of people now realize the search for redeeming and honest paths of embrace can be, as LGBTQ people have always known, a matter of life and death….

Talking Justice on Twitter: “We Are Breaking Down Barriers”

By Arafat Kabir

…the IDF’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank? The answer in part is that we search for those things which we can readily agree. We both condemn the murders of the three Jewish-Israeli boys the burning to death of a young Muslim-Palestinian. We all condemn violence on Jews and Muslims in Europe. Bird of peace? Those issues which are more complicated or less objective require patience and respect. For example, I might read: Why is Hamas building tunn…

Religion and Drag Coexist in ‘Drag Race’ Spinoff—but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Queer

By Drew Konow

…ations and explanations of success. It’s worth mentioning that there are a number of interesting treatments of religion in the series. In scene-transition montages set to the tune of twanging guitars, churches appear prominently alongside footage of farm animals, open fields, water towers, honeysuckles, and area landmarks—suggesting we’re in a place that is undeniably country, close to the land, and grounded largely in a very particular flavor of…

Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’

By Katherine Stewart

…lify the worst of the resulting cognitive dysfunctions. YouTube, Facebook, search engines—all profit from the algorithms that amplify obsessions and manipulate users. In a world of captured and monopolized information, in short, the profit motive has been invested in deepening an uncounted number of rabbit holes. Neiwert diagnoses the issue systematically, showing piece by piece how technology has helped conspiracy theorizing and delusional thinki…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…hn Kerry said Friday, “tired of war.” I write instead about the impulse to search for and locate “religion” in events like these, and to think about how we think about “evidence” in so doing. Much has been said in response to the Syrian civil war and the recent use of chemical weapons. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, of all people, cautioned that there is insufficient evidence to justify military intervention. The Obama administration (K…

Why Kim Davis Has Missed Her Moment

By Sarah Posner

…(those born between 1981 and 1996) favor gay marriage. A Public Religion Research Institute survey conducted last year found “white evangelical Protestant Millennials are more than twice as likely to favor same-sex marriage as the oldest generation of white evangelical Protestants (43% vs. 19%).” That’s not a majority of millennial white evangelicals, but it’s certainly significant, given that this demographic has long been one of the staunchest o…

Is It Immoral to Believe in Miracles?

By Noah Berlatsky

…eople in the university were excited. What an opportunity for a prophet in search of a following! What an opportunity, my rationalist friends told me, to contribute to the spreading of reason and the improvement of mankind! What a marvelous opportunity for a new wave of enlightenment.” But, Feyerabend says, “I felt very differently.” Who was I to tell these people what and how to think? I did not know their problems, though I knew they had many. I…

Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

By Spencer Dew

…amatic change, so, too, the chaos of existence prompts in the human mind a search for patterns, a rage for order. Thus, days like these are not merely ripe for hopeful prediction of the world’s end, they are ripe, too, with particularly striking demonstrations of how the religious imagination works and of the desire of some religious individuals (as well as journalists and scholars of religion) to dismiss such thinking as somehow less than really…