There is Only One God… And We Don’t Believe in Him
On being Jewish and atheist.
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Good News For Bad News Addicts
Once again we obsess on the headlines but don’t bother with the details.
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Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”
Zombie media makes clear distinctions between the human and the zombie—and killing them saves us. Yet, there are resonances of a more complicated vision of the zombie. What if remnants of humanity linger in those resurrected corpses? Or what if zombies represent something fundamental about humans that we need to examine?
Fear of a New Jewishness
I was most struck by one too-clever turn of phrase in the recent Pew Survey of U.S. Jews. The summary read, “believing in Jesus, however, is enough to place one beyond the pale: 60% of U.S. Jews say a person cannot be Jewish if he or she believes…
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Ghosts of Halloween Past
Here, in the order in which the Ouija board instructed us to offer them, is an assortment of stories about ghosts, death, fundamentalists, and general spookiness.
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Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera
In July 2013, Salt Lake City photographer Katrina Barker Anderson launched Mormon Women Bare, a website featuring nude portraits of Mormon women: “I think every single person has come out of this more comfortable in her skin, more sure of herself, more powerful.”
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Why Did So Many Black Women Die? Jonestown at 35
Why did this ultimately tragic movement, led by a young white man, appeal to so many African-American women?
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New Poll: ‘Faithful Catholics’ an Endangered Species
As Pope Francis launches a survey of Catholic opinion, a new survey reveals a yawning gap between the leadership and British Catholics.
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Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent
The scene opens in a bustling restaurant in Delhi, where a young woman leans in close to her grandfather, whose eyes sparkle with memories of his childhood in Lahore, Pakistan. He points to faded photograph of two young boys: “This is me. And this is Yusuf.” Every evening they flew…
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