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Photo of a Dying Man: All the Wrong Reasons

By Rachel Wagner

…where the publicly negotiated ritual meaning emerges: in the explosion of online debates about whether or not Abbasi could have helped; why other bystanders did not; what motivations the killer may have had; and—most importantly—what would we do in the same situation. No Moral Payoff For all this, though, I don’t think the image should have been posted. Nobody questions whether or not the image is powerful. And I don’t dispute the journalistic ri…

Will Church Attendance Reduce Bigotry? A Response to Peter Beinart

By Daniel Schultz

…proof. Do we know that less religious evangelicals support Trump in higher numbers than their more pious friends? Actually, we do! Or at least we did, when Trump outpaced Ted Cruz in the Republican primary last year. In the general election, Trump’s support among evangelicals rose with attendance, which is the normal pattern for Republican candidates. I’m not sure Beinart’s mirroring of white nationalism on the right and the Black Lives Matter mov…

Burning Man: Fear of an Alternative Pagan Social Order

By John W. Morehead

…nstallment in the series, but can also be found in an article he published online and in radio interviews. In consideration of Burning Man’s origins, Matthews critiques the “creation myth” of the event. Matthews views the popular portrayal, provided by founder Larry Harvey, as suspect and he provides an alternative understanding that relies on the testimony of Michael “Flash” Hopkins, a friend of Harvey’s who claims to have been a key collaborator…

A Pence Presidency Would Give Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Vision a Run for its Money

By Diane Winston

…Trump’s troubles grow by the hour so does the urgency of these questions. Online and off, the term Christofascism is creeping into conversations. Christofascism, a word coined by theologian Dorothee Sölle, refers to Christian authoritarianism, an outcome sought by some in the Religious Right. Theocracy is a terrifying vision for many Americans, but for those born between 1946 and 1964 Pence’s ideas are especially repugnant. That’s because for Ame…

For Better or Worse: The Rise of the Professional Wedding Celebrant

By Carlos Wilton

…ominational exams. For aspiring celebrants there’s a much easier route: an online ordination from the Universal Life Church or one of its imitators. The Universal Life Church has been around for longer than there’s been an Internet: since 1959, to be exact. In the early years, it was an open secret that many customers tried to use their mail-order ordinations as a tax dodge. The organization presents itself as an international community of free-th…

Alex Jones, Performance Artist, and the Duelling Meanings of ‘Sincerity’ in Politics and Public Life

By Spencer Dew

…ance artists, to a degree, these days? Are we not living mediated, largely online lives, via corporate platforms that require us to pose and post and like and link, crafting new modes of subjectivity? Is a world of ubiquitous surveillance (by self, others, and state) necessarily also a world of ubiquitous performance? Liberal critics cling to that original, Protestant concept of sincerity, believing in the power of belief. Their read on the world…

Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even If You Don’t Believe

By Jonathan Malesic

…the Trump agenda will need more than yoga, composting, and the occasional online donation to be effective. Self-improvement is a worthy aim, but as Jain says, the political reality of the day demands that liberals undertake “concrete acts of collective resistance.” In that case, mainline churches seem to have just what secular liberals need. As Douthat points out, mainline denominations are already committed to gender and racial equity, LGBTQ rig…

Religion No Longer Adequate For The Dalai Lama

By Joanna Piacenza

…acticing Buddhists, not to mention for his millions of spiritually-curious online followers? But his atheistic-toned words should not come as a surprise. Back in June, he tweeted that he is “increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.” Slowly, HHDL’s social media team has been tweaking the guru’s image to better align with our more secular views. Westerners are d…

New Mag Provides a Platform for Christians of Color

By Anita Little

…ore specific to religion reporting. Let’s say I go to a convention for the Online News Association or the Society of Professional Journalists. If I go to the annual conference for one of these organizations I’m more likely to see more diversity there than I would at—and I’m not trying to throw them under the bus, I love this organization—the Religion News Association. When I go to the conferences, I’m always looking around, and there just aren’t a…

#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

…what I learned in India. And I wonder what my guru thinks when he finds me online since that’s not what he taught me. We used to fight about these things.” Dr. Andrea R. Jain, an expert on the history of yoga and author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture, feels that reinvention and replication has always been part of the history of yoga, and doesn’t believe all appropriation is automatically colonialist or imperialist. “It’s not l…