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Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…elongs to the people being freed, and on their timetable—not mine or Third Way’s or that of centrist evangelicals. Moreover, as I have been trying to say, the story of liberation is responsible to the needs and interests of the oppressed, not those willing to surrender a bit of their privilege. I include myself in the latter category, by the way. At heart the problem with the Governing Agenda isn’t who participated in its construction or the less-…

“What’s the Relationship of Technology to God?”: A Q&A with Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

By Shannon Trosper Schorey

…wet DNA, could not get to by itself. It invents a mind which then invents ways of surviving not using DNA, not using wet tissue, but other kinds of materials. The mind is a way to settle or inhabit that possibility space that wet DNA could not get to by itself. What would happen if the mind were wrong? You claim that part of the problem today is that we’re resisting these inevitable technological forces – things like total surveillance and networ…

Occultism and New Age Take Off in Iran: An Interview with Alireza Doostdar

By Alireza Doostdar

…People may denigrate them (as superstition) or attach value to them (in a way similar to how they might valorize art or literature or eroticism or the imagination), but either way they usually agree that if we are interested in rationality and the work of reason, we should look elsewhere, ideally in the direction of science and philosophy. My book’s central message is that there is analytic profit to be gained from considering occultism and spiri…

“A Most Ungodly Way to View Religious Freedom”

By Sarah Posner

…appeasing zealots out in the community.” He calls the bill “a most ungodly way to view religious freedom:” Arizona is not alone. Even though it looks like Kansas’ controversial HB 2453 won’t make it through the state senate, it’s possible the bill’s supporters will recraft it with different language and try again. Other states are attempting similar maneuvers. These efforts have met with vociferous opposition, but given that their supporters are b…

The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? Paradise Lust Author Explains…

By Nathan Schneider

…ications of a beautiful, perfect place where something went wrong. So in a way we were imposing our mythology on the place, along with our energy needs and politics. Wait—Eden wasn’t always a beautiful, perfect place? Not exactly. Some say the (possibly Sumerian) word “Edin” means simply “a flat plain.” The Mesopotamian ancestors of the Bible stories have this polytheistic, pragmatic quality which I for one really enjoy. The legendary Sumerian “ha…

Ask the Dust: Do Queer People Have to Explain Themselves to Religious Conservatives?

By The Editors

…e idea that we are each obligated to make the world a better place in some way. However, the way in which you improve the world need not include rescuing people from outmoded and harmful points of view, especially if they wish to cling tightly to them. There are no standard guidelines for how to harmonize these differences and there is an added layer of complication when dealing with your own family. Sadly, the unfair and unequal burden of resolvi…

You Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton on Consuming Religion

By Kathryn Lofton

…he question first the way I think we tend to speak, and then answer it the way I think is true. What we say: I am always working on several things at once. Right now, I am continuing a longstanding exploration of Bob Dylan, his fandom, and his artistic iconicity; I am thinking about the queer history of American church organ manufacture; and I am working on a collection tentatively titled Sensitive People. In it, I’m thinking about the emergence o…

Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study

By Katherine Stewart

…t really turns on two questions. First, is the program organized in such a way that it is accountable in a real and meaningful way to the school, and not the religious group? Second, does the partnership involve an entanglement between the school system and the religious group that could foreseeably involve state involvement in or endorsement of religion? In the yoga case, both of these concerns have merit. In this particular instance, though, the…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…eaders have prayed in each others’ houses of worship and collaborated on a number of political initiatives. Speaking at the commemoration of the Cathedral’s one hundredth birthday, the Prophet Thomas S. Monson acknowledged the ecumenical spirit expressed in its tolling of the bells at the passing of each Mormon prophet since 1919. Heavenly Mother Mormonism’s Calvinist heritage is trumped—at least theologically, if not politically—by the United Ord…

Jeb Bush’s “New Way” Of Talking About Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…out gay marriage in 2016. “Has Jeb Bush offered the Republican Party a new way to talk about same-sex marriage?” the Washington Post asked in January. “Bush said people should accept court rulings that legalize same-sex marriage and ‘show respect’ for gays in committed relationships, while reiterating his long-held belief that ‘marriage is a sacrament’”—a message the Post declared “more welcoming” than that of the old GOP. But this month Bush appe…