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Chilean Mine Rescue: Largest Global Spiritual Event Ever?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ill no doubt highlight the rescue. But, I have to wonder what impact their spiritual, biblical, ethical, and other insights might have brought to a worldwide spiritual experience that unfolded through the day on October 13—the Feast of Digital Ascension, if I had any say in such things—had more seen their ministries extending beyond the walls of churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples and into the waves of 1s and 0s that drew millions together…

Religious Right “Compassion” and Other Lies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Church in America, and other denominations, have come to realize that the spirit of the law in their Holy book is one of love and acceptance of everyone instead of the bullying, compassionless, soul-killing, letter of the law. Mr. Sprigg, when Jesus looked out on the crowds that followed him, that book you love more than your fellow human beings, tells us that he had compassion on them. What did he do then? Did he tell them to change? Did he bull…

From Here to Eternity: Of Mormons and Celestial Marriage

By Holly Welker

…and all eternity,” provided the marriage is “sealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of promise, by him who is anointed.” In such a marriage, the couple “shall inherit thrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths” (D&C 132:19). This passage forms part of the basis for the doctrine of celestial or eternal marriage, the idea that marriages performed in an LDS temple will last beyond death and into eternity. Faced wit…

Rites, Rituals, and the King

By Amina Wadud

…. First we stand (facing towards Makkah, easy to find these days with the iphone!), then we bow at the waist in the ruku’, from which each unit of the performance gets its name, a rakah; then we prostrate with nose, forehead, palms of both hands, knees and toes touching the ground, sajdah; then we sit back from this sajdah before repeating it. That is, two prostrations for every rakah. Each prayer will have from 2-4 rakat. Clearly in sajdah we h…

The Morning After

By Amina Wadud

…est brother to it just last year). When I got the news, during the fast, a number of my friends told me just go ahead and stop fasting to address it. But, I thought if I do not get on top of it, this may be my last Ramadan; and I just wanted to finish what I had started. I’m glad I did, but here’s the thing. To stabilize the blood sugar, pre-diabetics and diabetics have to eat smaller meals dispersed through out the day. I started it yesterday but…

The High Church of Art

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…museum escape the fiction of its own secularity and thereby rediscover its spiritual roots, its spiritual task? It is telling that Sweeney’s bold vision was not entirely successful. He resigned from the Guggenheim when Harry Frank Guggenheim encouraged him to promote “a more popular educational approach.” And he was later asked to step down from his post at the Houston Museum when his “innovative if controversial curatorial approach came up agains…

Dying in Dirty Places: How to Honor the Dead in the Era of Ecocide

By Ryann Croken

…ark one of the most sacred rites of passage: the “return” of a body and/or spirit to its “home” (perhaps this is why the idea of a “homeless ghost” is so disturbing). An ancient, unambiguous morality compels us to lay our loved ones to rest in proper, dignified fashion. Even the most pagan-phobic, sky-god-reviling atheist out there would think it unnatural to toss his or her dead mother’s cadaver into a dumpster. The fact is, curious as it may see…

God is Love: A Desert Prophet’s Message

By Lauri Lebo

…the movie by the same name, which is about Chris McCandless, a young free-spirit who spent time in Slab City. McCandless eventually starved to death in an abandoned bus in Alaska. Knight knew McCandless and he portrays himself in the movie. Today, he is 79, still living on the outskirts of Slab City, hosting tours and providing his testimony for anyone who cares to listen. I think the fact that his message sounds so refreshing illustrates how cra…

Ted Haggard on ‘Loveless’ Evangelical Church

By Lauri Lebo

…ind “healing” as he did. Also, the man who has often spoken of the violent spirit of the Qur’an, says that the Park 51 mosque is a local zoning issue and should not be up for national debate. Now that Haggard knows what it’s like to be judged, it remains to be seen whether he is truly creating a church based more on compassion than hate. But it’s interesting that he chose the Book of James as the cornerstone of his church. James 2:13 says that “ju…

Of Mosques and Men

By Amina Wadud

…I was married, but eventually there was a competitive edge and not so much spirit. The one not reading would catch the mistakes of the one reading out loud and this was just disruptive. I soon learned to appreciate this as a solitary practice and not a community function. In the community, there are the tarawih prayers. During the prayers each night, the one leading the prayer, the imam, will recite one thirtieth of the Qur’an. This juz’ is divide…