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A Religious History of American Neuroscience

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…me in the SPR threw themselves behind a new contraption called the “psycho-phone” through which the inventors claimed to be hearing the voices of angels. The psychophone no doubt sounds absurd, but I can’t say that it sounds much more far-fetched than a transcranial magnetic stimulator. Both demonstrate the enduring cultural impulse toward techno-theologizing. However much neuroscientists might want to forswear an interest in the metaphysics of th…

James Foley Prayed, But He Was Not a Martyr

By Alana Massey

…ect of both personal and corporate prayer. When he speaks to his mother by phone from Libya, she asks if he has felt the prayers coming from his home as well. He tells her that he has felt them and reports, “Maybe it was others’ prayers strengthening me, keeping me afloat.” This is precisely the kind of hope that prayer can inspire that should become central to the understanding of it for those of us who do not engage in prayer. Though the old aph…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…w are you going to announce it over social media if you don’t have a smart phone? And smartphones: they are helpful, but they are also limited. I’m working with some of my guides to develop what’s called a WisePhone, and it’s smarter than a smartphone. What are some of the features of the WisePhone? You won’t lose it anymore because it won’t be influenced by gravity, so it won’t fall down the cracks of your couch. It will also be able to tweet or…

The Audacity of Melancholy: Race, Tragedy, and the Anguish of Progress

By Joseph Winters

…esthetics. Writers like Du Bois, Ellison and Morrison, and filmmakers like Charles Burnett show us that a different kind of hope (not optimism, not progress) is opened up. This isn’t necessarily by trying to overcome the tragic but by contemplating the affinities between pleasure and anguish, intimacy and violence, the tragic and the comic, and remembrance and moving forward/backward. Similarly, readers should take home from the book a sense that…

What Does a Moral Economy Look Like for the 99 Percent?

By Jonathan Rosenblum

…y left the airport and began marching a mile to the headquarters of Alaska Airlines. I think the photo does a great job of embodying the energy of the budding movement—clergy and workers from a diversity of backgrounds and faiths. To me, the picture reinforces a key argument of the book: this is a moral fight. For nine months leading up to the rally, organizers had been meeting people at the airport and in the community, coaxing them to take on an…

Revisiting Philip Roth’s 2004 Novel that Predicted the Trump Election

By Michael Schulson

…st, nativist platform. He wins. Roth’s celebrity politician is the aviator Charles Lindbergh, who really did flirt with majoritarian demagoguery in the 1930s, and whose name actually was floated for a presidential run in the election of 1940 (a Republican senator asked, but Lindbergh declined). In the novel, Lindbergh forms a close alliance with Hitler, keeps the United States out of World War II, and gradually amps up anti-Semitic policies until…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…rights around the world. Unfortunately, Trump’s cabinet choices include a number of stridently anti-gay figures, and his rumored pick of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State is sounding alarm for Tillerson’s close ties to Russia’s Vladimir Putin as well as the company’s historically poor track record on LGBT issues. C-Fam, the US based organization that is helping to lead an anti-LGBT backlash at the United Nations, attacked a spee…

Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017

By Peter Laarman

…news that are deployed to stir up hatred. Some key media figures, notably Charles Blow, are talking up active resistance, but everyday people are having their own conversations about how to live responsibly as winter soldiers rather than as sunshine patriots. 3. Contested faith, first instance. While al-Qaeda and ISIS vie for control of fanatical forces in Syria and Iraq, across the world we can also see significant pushback within Islam against…

UPDATE: Sam Brownback as Religious Freedom Ambassador? His Distinguished Predecessor Hopes for the Best

By Peter Laarman

…es of their union rights (no freedoms for mere workers!). At the behest of Charles and David Koch, he engineered a series of tax cuts so as to reduce the state tax liability of Wichita-based Koch Industries to zero. Using Koch money, he crushed moderate opposition in the legislature. Never mind that he bankrupted the state in the process, to the point that the Republican legislature finally had enough and started pushing back against the carnage….

From Empire to Shire: Rod Dreher’s Nostalgia for Middle-Earth

By Gustavo Maya

…: Christians argued for nominalism, church reform, science, and democracy; Charles Taylor supports multiculturalism; Wendell Berry, who is influenced by Romanticism, doesn’t oppose same-sex marriage.) It’s plausible that certain understandings of secularism or liberalism are the results of faithful, theologically-orthodox views. Secularism, understood as the disestablishment of the church, has been building for centuries as a development internal…