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With Release of Pentagon Report, UFO Narrative Belief System is Suddenly Supported by Military Witness Testimonies

By Diana Pasulka

…itness testimonies is Leslie Kean’s UFOs: Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials Go On The Record (2010), a New York Times bestseller featuring the testimonies of military personnel who report aggressive engagements with UAPs. The Foreword, written by former White House Chief of Staff and Presidential Counselor John Podesta, forms, perhaps unwittingly, a specific framework for interpreting witness testimonies. He writes: “I’m skeptical about m…

How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer

By Andrew Aghapour

…ervance to be replaced by a new “National Day of Reason.” According to its official website, a National Day of Reason would, of course, “celebrate reason,” but it would also “raise public awareness about the persistent threat to religious liberty posed by government intrusion into the private sphere of worship.” We should definitely have a National Day of Reason (Vision gets a whole week! Reason at least deserves a day), but the AHA’s call to coun…

The Bible Is Not a Diet Plan

By Rob Goodman

…f the Bible. The first nine chapters of 1 Chronicles are taken up with the official family tree of the Hebrew tribes… Talk about boring! The long lists of unfamiliar and difficult names—more than five hundred of them—are likely to make even the bravest Bible student turn back.” Genealogies are “boring” and “difficult”—because we can’t use them. But they were recorded and preserved with such care because the strangers who wrote that book could use…

Pence Campaigns to Southern Baptists, But He May Want to Cool His Trump Jets

By Daniel Schultz

…okay, totally editorializing), this does not sound very much like a public official who’s careful to observe the line between the church and the state, does it? No, no it does not: Vice President Mike Pence shared his Christian testimony with the Southern Baptist Convention and commended the SBC as “one of the greatest forces for good” in the world. … Pence thanked Southern Baptists for carrying the “timeless message” of the Gospel “every day with…

Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is: A For-Profit Meditation Studio Opens in New York

By Michael Schulson

…ge with the telling (was it a nail salon or a hair salon?), but here’s the official version: during a teatime conversation, Burrows asked Rinzler “why there wasn’t a modern, non-religious, drop-in studio where she could meditate in the same way she could drop into a salon and get her hair done.” Rinzler, it turned out, had been thinking along the same lines. They drew up a plan. I’m not a Buddhist teacher, but I can think of at least two answers t…

Bin Laden’s Death Does Not Prove that Torture Works

By Sarah Sentilles

…Laden’s death proves torture works. John Yoo, a former Justice Department official who authored some of the “torture memos,” wrote Monday in the National Review that “President Obama can take credit, rightfully, for the success today, but he owes it to the tough decisions taken by the Bush administration.” Yoo made the same argument in the Wall Street Journal, claiming that it was the Bush administration’s “intelligence architecture” that “marked…

Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations

By Peter Laarman

…was introduced into this 1886 decision without argument. According to the official case record, Supreme Court Justice Morrison Waite simply pronounced at the outset that “The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opin…

Straightening Up Cardinal Newman

By Mark D. Jordan

…particular was slow to adopt the duality heterosexual/homosexual into its official language, but now it uses the opposed pair without hesitation to formulate moral teaching and to write policy. No wonder, then, that church officials find themselves uncomfortable before Newman’s shared grave. At a time when the Vatican is hunting for homosexuals in seminaries and the priesthood, an ordained saint cannot be a homosexual. He cannot even appear to be…

Why Kaepernick’s Refusal to Stand Is an Act of Religious Dissent

By Benjamin E. Zeller

…clear about why he opted not to stand. He released a statement through the official NFL Media wing: I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder. In a very Durkheimian manner, Kaepernick intentional…

Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…nces and its use becomes accepted in everyday life, Campbell said. Even if official church policies don’t change, churchgoers often do. The Catholic Church’s opposition to contraception hasn’t changed, but Catholics in the United States use birth control and have abortions at about the same rate as non-religious people, Campbell said. And he explained that in the dozen years physician-assisted death has been legal in Oregon, about half of the near…