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Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…er, more flattering style. The next morning, rupees in hand, I went to the Welcome Center. I had five minutes before our orientation session so when the registrar asked me to wait, I explained that I needed to get to my students. But he demurred, joining a tanned and tangle-haired young couple sitting at a computer. The three proceeded to navigate the check-in procedure. I counted to ten, which only increased my agitation: now I’d lost another ten…

The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New

By Elizabeth Drescher

…hal, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, framed questions of welcome, evangelism, and Christian identity this way: If the eucharist is, indeed, a table set in the wilderness, and we are all gathered around it like homeless people gathered around an open fire, then what is to distinguish us from other outsiders who may happen to gather with us? Breidenthal goes on to suggest that the movement toward open communion, rather than being a…

My Congregation Tried to Help a Syrian Family Settle in the US

By Thomas Warming

…rite is simply to point to Jesus’ statement that “I was a stranger and you welcomed me…as you did it for one of the least of these, so you did it for me.” But even though they live at the quick of the faith, justifications are less interesting than simple facts on the ground. We had a community ready to welcome strangers in need with open arms, which is what everyone says Christians should do. But now comes the governor and a wave of his colleague…

Wild Goose Festival’s (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians

By Kristin Rawls

…an disagree.” Retief, author of the new memoir The Jack Bank, said he felt welcomed and accepted, “because I felt the center of gravity of the mostly young, cool, hipster social justice-supporting attendees was overwhelmingly pro-queer. I thought Campolo and his cohorts were on a bit of an intellectual island… Pro-queer statements got cheered at panels; antigay statements were generally met with silence.” But not every emergent-church hipster unif…

How Will We Teach About Sikhism After the Tragedy?

By Laurie Patton

…injured or killed in the Oak Creek shootings. Everyone in the community is welcome, and non-Sikhs are invited to show their solidarity. Just underneath that announcement of welcome, the “Law Enforcement Training Video On Sikhism” is posted. The description of the video reads: Awareness of cultural and religious observations, including those of Sikhism, can help avoid misunderstanding and tension—assisting the public in understanding the challenges…

Declining Southern Baptists Double Down on Homophobia

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntion is getting ready to double down on its anti-gay message. As an added bonus, their condemnation has gone all inclusive as they take special aim at the transgender community, who, up until now, had been largely ignored by the conservative Protestant denomination. As members gather this week in Baltimore, Md., for their annual meeting, Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has already fired the opening salvo…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…tional response, laughter being the emotional response, a form of weeping. Bonus: An Interview with Ultra Spiritual JP Sears Ultra Spiritual JP, is there an inherent conflict between religion and science? There’s no scientific basis to back up science. The fundamentalist scientists haven’t been willing to prove how science is actually scientific, because of their dogmatic beliefs. Wait, are you implying that science is a religion? Science is perha…

From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…permanent; I’d like to call this error “Kardashianism,” which as an added bonus sounds like confusionism, giving my argument an impressive and solipsistic coherence. (You’re not really surprised, are you? I’ve argued that Jersey Shore, appreciated anthropologically, affords us an unparalleled etiology of the Arab Spring.) Look at this picture, worth 1,000 foreign policy words. It’s Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister and global thinker, on…

How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…battered by Muslims and Marxists, in which to make his stand. As an added bonus, he can defend the Catholic faith in a national church. The Orthodox communion is governed through a highly decentralized, synodical system in which 15 self-governing churches—traditionally organized along national/ethnic lines—act with autonomy. While this system of ecclesiastical governance predates by centuries modern concepts of race and nationalism, for a nationa…

Exit Polls on Religion

By Sarah Posner

…they were white born again Christian or evangelical. The exit poll has Romney winning among white Protestants, who make up 41% of voters, 75-25%, among white Catholics (11%), 64-33%, but Obama is winning 89% of non-whites (33% of the electorate). Bonus point of interest in the Virginia exit poll: Obama is winning among voters who attend religious services weekly (44% of voters), 51-49%, among those who attend occasionally (36%), 53-47%, and among…