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Liberal Christians Come Out Swinging at Trump, Mostly

By Daniel Schultz

…happening in their lives overrode their distaste for his bombast. In their search for a leader not connected to the power base of a government that has been perceived as corrupt, inefficient, and out of touch – his populist rhetoric appealed to them. He must now lead a country where people of color, women, Muslims, immigrants, the disabled, and an LGBT community all feel the sting and impact of his public speech. Dorhauer makes the requisite call…

What’s Truth? Scientific Method Under the Microscope

By Arri Eisen

…ge numbers of people, write up the experience, repeat it, compare the same number of people at the same time who don’t believe in God, but are otherwise similar, see if they have the same experience, and then have someone in Australia and China repeat my experiment and see if they get the same results. This method is what science is supposed to be about; this is scientific proof, this is what scientists believe in. The Decline Effect: Results are…

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

By Beatrice Marovich

…k this trend the paper launched an essay contest in March of this year: in search of the ethical argument for meat. Essays were judged by a star-studded panel that included vocal vegetarians like Peter Singer and Jonathan Safran Foer as well as more cautiously omnivorous foodies such as Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman. Controversy ensued over the fact that the panel was comprised entirely of men. But, gender issues be damned, results were publishe…

The Ghost Is More Important Than The Machine: Norman Corwin (1910-2011)

By Peter Manseau

…spell conjuring the sensation of what a “miracle” it truly was: “This microphone is not an ordinary instrument / For it looks out on vistas wide indeed,” he wrote. “My voice commingles now with northern lights and asteroids and Alexander’s skeleton / With dead volcanoes and with donkey’s ears… / It drifts among whatever spirits pass across the night.” Corwin was the first radio scribe who wrote with full awareness of what this new medium meant and…

A New Thing: On the Quest for a Biblical Politics

By Garret Keizer

…ip finds an Ethiopian eunuch desiring to be baptized, he will not refuse. “Search the scriptures,” Jesus says in the Gospel of John, “for in them you think you have eternal life.” The texts are essential, he seems to be saying, but they are not definitive. They point to the God who can always do a new thing—who is doing one now. 4. Perhaps no contemporary example better illustrates our estrangement from this tradition than the current debate over…

Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

By Andrew L. Seidel

…BTQ people was already well-known and documented, as even a cursory Google search shows. That his bigotry was rooted in religion perhaps gave him a pass, and your network chose to pay this man, presumably quite well, to pontificate to audiences of millions. Last Friday, however, Santorum delivered a speech in which the racism was obvious, but the harmful disinformation rooted in Christian Nationalism was less so. I write this open letter in hopes…

Religion Dispatches Turns Two

By The Editors

…Chronicle, the New York Times, or Time when they sit down at breakfast in search of exhilaration. We also have to acknowledge one of the truly remarkable, and unanticipated sources of our success: the numerous writers—from academia, from journalism, from activist communities, from the art world, and from other arenas—who support us both by submitting exceptional material and becoming effective and vocal cheerleaders for this magazine. Two years i…

Run Hajar Run

By Amina Wadud

…d partially in preparation for the rigors of the hajj rituals. I’m still researching the best program for me, but it’s been a week with no sugary sweets and no white flour. I’m still working my way to having six small meals a day, right now I’m at about five. I also included two brisk half-hour walks each day, when I can make them. The morning walk is less of a challenge, even when I have my grandson. In fact, especially when I have my grandson, b…

Ask the Dust: Unbelievers, Bunker-Dwellers, Anti-Natalists

By The Editors

…soulful (and free) introspection before you go start playing the field in search of a guru or teacher. And remember the first rule of potentially dodgy situations: don’t drink anything pink. The Dust p.s. If you do go and make it out unharmed, write to us and tell us more about it. If you don’t make it out, have your wingperson drop us a line and we’ll extract you. • • • • • • dust@religiondispatches.org • • • • • • Dear Dust, If a person could…

As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…up 5% from the previous year’s poll. A 2011 study by the Public Religion Research institute found that “when same-sex marriage is defined explicitly as a civil marriage,” support increases to a staggering 71%. “What this all means,” Lakeland said, “is that there is something to talk about.” And the university may be the best place to have that conversation. “Catholic universities are first and foremost universities,” Lakeland insists. “‘University…