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You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

By John Stoehr

…ng with one person and ended it with something else. This has been dubbed “change blindness.” Change blindness appears to be proof positive that the brain fabricates a mental picture of the world based on information that does not exist. We live in a delusion, therefore, a world of shadows. The goal of neuroscience, then, much like the goal of philosophers in Plato’s day, is to figure out why the world appears to us as a complete picture when in f…

Updated: Gay Activist Beheaded in Uganda…
Is it a Hoax?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…’s death is tragic, and stands as a reason why the Anglican Communion must change its teaching on homosexuality. There is no reason why the consciences of those who oppose the full inclusion of LGBT people should be allow to inhibit change in the church. The prevention of torture and murder of any individual must always be the first priority, ensuring that all citizens and Christians can live in an environment of love, security and affirmation. Th…

Historic Pro-Gay Equality Shift Led by Millennials—Evangelicals Included

By Peter Montgomery

…found majority support among Americans for marriage equality, marked a sea change in public opinion. Karlyn Bowman, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who commented on the new report, used historical data to highlight the dramatic change in public opinion on gay rights issues over the past quarter century, during which she said attitudes on reproductive choice, by contrast, were relatively stagnant. She said, for example, that th…

First Gay Bishop? Give Me a Break

By Peter Montgomery

…about now is time.” He calls it an “amazingly hopeful notion” that the Episcopal Church, “an old, complex, somewhat lethargic institution,” could change so dramatically in a relatively short amount of time. The church, he says, in a significant way “risked its life for us.” The film also makes clear that Robinson and those around him risked their lives in very literal ways. Robinson was asked to give an invocation opening inaugural weekend festivi…

New Yorker on Banking Corruption: Suck it Up and Stop Whining

By Peter Laarman

…been a moment of fundamental change on a par with the New Deal, but the moment of opportunity has already been betrayed by our well-fed social elites—many of them still cheekily characterizing themselves as “public servants” and as liberal Democrats-who don’t want fundamental change. And who, despite their rhetoric, actually have nothing but contempt for the great unwashed who didn’t have the sense to go to Harvard or establish themselves in the r…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…es a platform activists can use to create and manage petitions. On Monday, Change.org deleted a wildly inflammatory petition supporting the sodomy ban because it violated Change.org’s guidelines on hate speech. The petition included links to anti-gay materials from American religious right groups and leaders including Paul Cameron, the Traditional Values Coalition and MassResistance. Other anti-gay petitions were also taken down after they were c…

Church Synod Recap: Micromanaging the Morals of Others

By Mary E. Hunt

…place for all but the most rigidly observant. What about the much-vaunted changes in tone? Changes in tone are no substitute for changes in substance. It is as if instead of saying, “Go to hell,” one were to say “Have a lovely, safe trip to your eternal damnation.” This time around, contraception and abortion did not even get a kind word. Tone deaf to women’s lives is how I read the document. Still, the report of the doomed upbeat first draft gav…

Prepare for Attack on Science by Newly-Elected Republicans

By Lauri Lebo

…ustries and Murray Energy, according to the Huffington Post. Other climate change deniers who were just elected or reelected to the Senate and whose top contributors are these same two companies include Hoeven, David Vitter (R-LA) and Jim DeMint (R-SC). Despite the fact that, just as with evolution, there is virtually no debate in the science community over the existence of man-made climate change, questioning it in the public sphere is pretty mu…

Did Pope Francis Just End the Religion and Science Conflict?

By Donovan Schaefer

…ut in favor of an ambitious, activist agenda against anthropogenic climate change, Francis wades into an ongoing debate among the world’s most powerful countries about the interpretation of climate data. Specifically, Francis sides with the preponderance of scientists and against conservative politicians and business leaders in affirming that anthropogenic climate change is both real and urgent. He thus adds moral weight to the scientific consensu…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…s they can, together, and still not have it be enough? Because more has to change. Frankly, everything must change. One thing that could derail this momentous agreement among the wise and weathered people of the world is the threat of terrorism. The lead news stories all these last ten days have been San Bernardino or Chicago or the French election, moving to the right in Islamophobia. What if good people and decent governments worldwide commit to…