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Should Faith Healing ‘Do Business’ with Modern Medicine?

By Beatrice Marovich

…me movements, such as Hospice care, have gone a long way toward fusing the spiritual and the medical in patient care. But Harrington intimates that the “mind,” “soul,” or “spirit” factor needs to become a more integral part of how we—as a culture—understand healing practices at large. She even goes so far as to say that religion (broadly interpreted) is what drove her interest in the history of science to begin with. She started out as an historia…

Homeschooling and American Exceptionalism

By Julie Ingersoll

…ing whatsoever is to be added to this, whether by “new revelations” of the Spirit or by the traditions of man.” [emphasis in the original] Certainly homeschoolers are not monolithic; in fact the earliest years of the movement were dominated by lefties who rejected public education for its stifling regimentation, favoring what they often referred to as unschooling. But by the beginning of the twenty-first century homeschooling has become an industr…

Note to Religious Liberals: God Does Take Sides

By Daniel Schultz

…ack into serfdom, unemployment benefits expired, and in a bid to bring the spirit of peace and generosity back to Christmas, Republicans threatened to filibuster the START treaty until tax cuts for the upper 2% of wealthy Americans were made permanent. Oh, and like a maraschino cherry high atop a lollapalooza of suck, we find out from Wikileaks that the Obama administration—with GOP help—basically has quashed the investigation into torture by slow…

Think Yoga is a Religion? Try Youth Soccer!

By Joanna Brooks

…that is a religion right now, no question, hands down, it’s youth soccer. Soccer is like Saturday morning church in the suburbs. It’s pretty much compulsory. Dutifully we worship the small people wearing the brightly-colored silken vestments. Faithfully we line up to form “spirit tunnels,” touching fingertips with parents from opposing teams. Lovingly we serve juice box and orange slice sacraments. We hand-sew lavish new banners each season, banne…

Sex and Civilization: The Body as Battleground

By Jay Michaelson

…ural) is that which curbs what we today might call “nature” in the name of spiritual discipline. Yes, Paul replaces physical circumcision with spiritual, but in doing so he creates a far more insidious apparatus of control. This is a nature of anti-nature. Ironic, then, that many of today’s anti-gay voices call homosexuality “unnatural” in a pseudo-scientific sense. They are wrong; Paul is right. Homosexuality is entirely too natural, found in ove…

Indonesia: As Volcano Erupts, a Spiritual Loss

By Mark Woodward

…ng of a folk hero for his courage and was widely believed to have enormous spiritual powers. He appeared in advertisements for a popular brand of sports drink together with nationally known athletes. The advertisements suggested a relationship between the athletes’ physical prowess and Mbah Marijan’s spiritual power. I met Mbah Marijan only once, less than two months ago. He was a very deeply religious man in a very Javanese way. He was a pious Mu…

On Death and After-Death

By Amina Wadud

…ure, imagine that! We also have the notion of resurrection but not just in spirit, but in body too. In fact, the Qur’an says, even if you take the dead and throw pieces hither and yon, the pieces will all come back together to face the Judgment. But again, every one will be brought to final Judgment, no gender distinction. Now, you’d think it would be like passing an algebra test, but it’s not. Because there are things that weigh in here, unlike y…

Bishops vs. Nuns: Who Spoke for God in 2010?

By Eugene McMullan

…, are carried out through the Logos, and find their completion in the Holy Spirit. Clinging to the Logos (in a patristic usage), bishops see themselves as transformed by, and transmitting the saving truths of Jesus Christ. In that sense, they speak for God. The nuns may also see themselves as speaking for God. Many would embrace Sr. Schneider’s definition of religious life as a “prophetic life-form.” Others might see themselves simply as persons c…

Sacrifice

By Amina Wadud

…nd on the ground but for me, I reserve any judgment in order to get to the spiritual focus. We should arrive before noon and the mid-day prayer. At this place, we listen to a sermon given from the mosque there, masjid-al Nimarah, and then combine zhuhr and ‘asr prayers. Then we have the remainder of the afternoon for supplication, praise and meditation. That’s it. The whole day is reserved for just that. It is believed that if all the steps for th…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…Walker’s voice and presence filled many a church, but it was her generous spirit that supported the careers of many singers that made her an exceptional woman and gospel singer. Burke’s influence on country western music, as well as the Rolling Stones, Al Green and others, was a seamless marriage of the sacred and secular. Burke, ordained at the age of 7, also was a licensed mortician, coupling two of the historic occupations for African American…