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New Study: Motivation Doesn’t Improve Group Success

By Arri Eisen

…erage or maximum individual intelligence’ in that group. There’s something new, some emergent property, about being in a group—if the group works. That’s a big if. We’ve all been in groups—whether religion-based or otherwise—that drive us nuts. What makes for a group that works, a group with high collective intelligence? Woolley and friends find that some of the kinds of things you’d expect to improve collective intelligence don’t (including the m…

New Poll: Millennials Suspicious of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…bout religion in the 2012 presidential race, it does provide some striking new data about perceptions of Mormonism among younger voters. Here are the familiar findings: About 40% of Americans are at least somewhat uncomfortable with the idea of a Mormon president. More Democrats (50%) report discomfort with an LDS president than Republicans (36%) or Independents (38%). About half of white evangelicals say we’re not Christian. Two-thirds of America…

Bristol Palin’s New Book Reveals Heterosexual Agenda

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s in which they raise their morally incorruptible offspring. But Bristol’s new book belies the true agenda of the heterosexual, according to Burroway. Heterosexuals say they are the true defenders of American values, but the truth is “heterosexual militants have embarked on a systematic assault on American values.” We see this in Bristol’s story as she systematically undermines the American values of sobriety, virginity, sex only within marriage,…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…SIS in Iraq and Syria could possibly signal the beginnings of a terrifying new chapter in religious oppression. Will our future historian write about bloody religious crusades between Muslims and Christians in the new Global South? Or will small but growing secular movements in Africa and Asia prevent this? What will our historian say about the growth of “indigenous” religion? From Max Muller to Mircea Eliade western scholars have often patronizin…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…ligious colleges. Look for all these stories—and some of the not-such-good-news we covered in 2012—to continue making waves in 2013. Civil Marriage and Uncivil Religion On New Year’s Day, same-sex couples in Maryland started getting legally married—joining those in Washington state and Maine, where voters had also given a thumbs-up in a remarkable set of November election victories. Pro-equality activists are working to build on those victories wi…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…ionality and the transcendent. This leads you to hope for something like a new apophatic theology which may in fact embrace unknowing in a new way, without necessarily becoming simply another postmodern suspicion of the master narrative. Can you develop this idea a little more, and tell me how, in your boldest moments, you dream that it might come about? (I imagine the Charter for Compassion might be part of your answer.) We need to realize that w…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…list elites who have planned and prepared for this opportunity to impose a new world order: a new global government with a new economic system. In the spiritual context he will be enacting a Satanic plot to usurp the role and identity of the Messiah and gain the adulation of the world. Wielding great military power this self-aggrandizing human savior will force an end to war and impose a secular humanist paradigm and religious pluralism as a remed…

The Exorcist Files, Getting Mad at God, The Obama Prayer…

By Michael J. Altman

…he state of New York has eliminated its entire kosher inspection division. New York Rep. Peter King is promising to use his new position as chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security to hold hearings about Islam in America. Record numbers of Brits are converting to Islam, according to a new survey. Opponents of Scientology in Chicago are fighting for the right to protest outside the Church of Scientology. Atheists, agnostics, and humanis…

Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture

By Anita Little

…plain a little about the purpose of the center and the significance of the new museum having a Center for the Study of African American Religion, especially funded on the large scale that it is? Yolanda Pierce: I just recently joined, the current staff has been working on this for 10 years. So a lot of the credit belongs to the team that’s already here. One thing they’ve done very well is incorporate religion throughout the museum, all the way fro…

2016 Was the Year Queer and Trans Muslims Entered the Public Consciousness: Mahdia Lynn On This New Era

By The Editors

…from the show’s guests that reveal how their worldview has changed in this new era. Mahdia Lynn is a disabled bisexual transgender Shi’a Muslim woman. She is the Executive Director of Masjid al-Rabia, a women-centered LGBTQ affirming mosque, and is heavily involved in Chicago’s faith and justice communities, with a focus on police accountability, prison abolition, trans liberation and disability justice. This episode explores Mahdia’s life and wor…