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

By John Stoehr

…that somehow yields consciousness. For Crick and other brain researchers, this “thinking thing” is the actual physical human brain. And it’s here and only here, Noë writes, that the orthodox scientific view of the mind breaks significantly from the philosophical tradition. The truly astonishing thing to say, he writes forcefully, is that consciousness is not in the brain. Which leads us to Noë’s thesis. Scientists know two things for sure. One is…

Gay Marriage: Can We Get a Little Respect?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of us older folks, along with gay and lesbian families who brought their children who held signs demanding equality for their parents. It truly was a sight to see. The rally in Columbia was part of a larger movement to hold rallies across the United States to protest the passage of Prop. 8 in California. For those who support marriage equality it is clearly a matter of civil rights. For those who oppose it, as CNN reports, not so much. In the vid…

Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

By Cody Musselman

…tuates dynamics of exclusion and domination. Like so many other schisms within the history of American religion that have been premised upon racial inclusion and discrimination, hope and reform follow pain and separation. Yet, constant reminders of what’s at stake may be necessary as (ex)CrossFitters forge a new republic of fitness. In Reforging the White Republic, Edward Blum recounts the history of Northern white Protestants abandoning their rac…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…e was surely right on one point. As Rabbi David Saperstein noted in the Washington Post (in his own discussion of the Hagee affair), there were some orthodox Jews who explicitly said that Hitler was an agent of God. Saperstein calls these Jews “theological extremists” and finds their belief “mind boggling” and “repugnant.” He also laments that “it had become common to find Jewish leaders joining in Pastor Hagee’s ‘Salute to Israel’ events around t…

Mormon Milk Author to Gay and Lesbian Kids: “God Does Love You”

By Adele M. Stan

…y getting married (presumably to a man, since Dustin Lance Black is gay). This night in California, where citizens recently nullified their state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, he wore the white ribbon that symbolizes the cause of same-sex marriage rights. He spoke of his gratitude for his mother’s acceptance of him as he is. And then he made a plea to any young lost souls who may be struggling to accept themselves. “If Harve…

Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…tend to obscure its significance. And while we know we cannot cover everything in this piece, and we are not going to single anyone out here, we want to dismantle the main elements of NAR denialism and briefly show how they can contribute to misunderstandings of this important movement. We also want to point to some primary and secondary sources that anyone coming to this subject will find helpful. First, let’s point out that NAR is the preferred…

Forget Debates and Dialogue about LGBT Justice, the Religious Right isn’t Listening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to be like Jimmy Creech who said, “I’m not going to go along with the teachings of this church. I am going to disobey them. Ecclesial disobedience. If enough ministers simply said they were going to go against polity, they can’t fire them all. But they can fire them one at a time when they don’t combine. Also, forget the debates and dialogues. Fundamentalists don’t listen to dialogues. As I say in the book, “To play along with this game of studyi…

Manslaughter Conviction of Brittney Poolaw Represents Pattern of White Christian Policing of Black and Brown Women’s Bodies

By Chrissy Stroop

…segregation, a means for white Christian parents to continue having their children educated in an all-white environment. Defense of racial segregation was in fact a key factor in the emergence of the modern Christian Right. It was only when overt racism became politically unviable, in the late 1970s (years after Roe v. Wade), that right-wing Christian leaders like Rev. Jerry Falwell, Sr. began fixating on abortion, pursuing the same old white supr…

Complicating the Prosperity Gospel Story: A Microeconomics of Pentecostalism, International Edition

By Naomi Haynes

…s hard! In any case, the idea of “moving,” and the Pentecostal version of this, which is what I mean by “moving by the Spirit,” serves as an organizing motif for the book. So, the current title gives you a reasonable idea of what it’s about. How do you feel about the cover? I love it! So many books about Pentecostalism have covers featuring people in rapt worship, and I was really grateful to move away from that trope. My brother John, who is a ph…

House Votes to Repeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…bans in Britain, Israel, Canada and Australia. Perhaps the most striking thing that Belkin and his group found was that in Canada, sexual harassment of service women fell 46 percent when the gay ban disappeared. Would-be harassers realized women were now “free to report assaults without fear that they would be accused of and subsequently discharged for being a lesbian.” In the U.S. military, the Department of Veterans Affairs reported in 2000 tha…