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Dear Scientists: Please Stop Bashing Free Will!

By John Horgan

…ysical law,” the physicist Stephen Hawking writes in The Grand Design, his latest bestseller, co-written with Leonard Mlodinow, “so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is an illusion.” Similarly, the neuroscientist Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, contends in his new book The Moral Landscape that “no account of causality leaves room for free will.” He adds, “Our belief in free will arises from our moment…

Are They Jewish Bones? Battle for Separation of Synagogue & State in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…e bones of Jews cavalierly are our enemies.” The bones that generated the latest controversy were found during construction of a hospital wing in the city of Ashkelon, on the Mediterranean. Barzilai Hospital, the city’s major medial center, which serves hundreds of thousands of people, is in dire need of a new emergency room. The plan was to build an ER that is bombproof, as Ashkelon lies within the trajectory of Qassam rockets fired from Gaza. T…

Bless Your Heart! The Religious Right Tries to Be Civil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…rough and often hateful rhetoric, especially toward gays and lesbians. The latest soft touch is something called “The Civility Project.” Founded by Republican Mark DeMoss, who worked as a volunteer for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, and Democrat Lanny Davis, a longtime Clinton adviser, the project seeks to “get Americans to agree to disagree without being disagreeable.” Those who sign up for the project are asked to take a pledge: I will be…

Fear Factory USA: Sex, Sexuality and a Rainbow of Bigotry

By The Editors

…In the latest RD/Bloggingheads collaboration, RD contributing editor Peter Laarman interviews RD blogger and contributing writer Anthea Butler on such topics as: Fearing lesbians in high offices Man rents boy Wisconsin’s Muslims vs. “I want my country back” cheese-heads Arizona: The Hispanic Alabama? The rise of an American-style fascism Catholic Bishops granted free agency…

Gaza Play Sparks Mixed Reaction Among Jews

By Benjamin Weiner

…f the last war, the number of victims who were women and children, and the latest allegations being voiced by soldiers returning home from the front, could do with some soul searching—even if for some the result will only be further ratification of Israeli policy. If Churchill’s play serves as instigation for this inquiry, it will have served a worthwhile purpose. If it functions only to reaffirm what right-thinking people think they already know…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ather than saying something, no matter our religion. Costa Rica: Activists Promote Marriage Equality Bill Opposed by Evangelical Lawmakers Equality activists are promoting new marriage equality legislation, which is backed by deputies from different parties, though one of the lawyers supporting the bill acknowledged that it might be blocked by evangelical lawmakers who have to date prevented other attempts. Tunisia: Court Jails Students on Sodomy…

Planned Parenthood Gets Religious Support

By Patricia Miller

…ensuring women’s health and moral autonomy. We are deeply troubled by the latest deplorable attacks on Planned Parenthood by faux groups, which demonstrate the lengths to which antiabortion extremists will go to curtail women’s right to obtain a legal medical procedure. Our organizations share a faith-centered commitment to the most marginalized and the most vulnerable of our society, including those with limited financial means or those who live…

Sean Feucht’s New Year’s Rockin’ Superspreader Revival is a ‘Tepid and Meager’ Effort at Racial Reconciliation

By Isaiah Murtaugh

…merican Cultural & Community Center, to pray for another revival. It’s the latest stop on a nationwide “worship protest” campaign, led by Sean Feucht, a worship leader, failed congressional candidate, and would-be revivalist. Feucht’s Let Us Worship events have become regular news cycle fodder, with largely maskless crowds flouting local rules on social distancing and worship gatherings. Feucht has styled the events as protests of Covid-induced re…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…mattered. And it was especially true of religious people. Son of God, the latest cultural product aimed at the supposedly burgeoning Christian consumer public, embodies this mode of kitsch religiosity. Of course Jesus is hot, white, and soulful. Of course he is just absolutely perfect. That’s what a religious person should aspire to be: nice, clean, square, entirely in major key. More than the Biblical literalism of the film—a term which is hardl…

Meditation is the Multi-Tasker’s Answer

By Andrew Aghapour

…educe stress, and aid in multi-tasking (full text here). This study is the latest in a series linking various meditation techniques to health benefits, such as improved cognitive fluidity, increased density in the part of the brain associated with self-regulation (including dieting), decreased risk for cardiovascular disease in at-risk teens, and increased creativity. During the UW study, three groups of 12-15 human resource managers were monitore…