Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort
I went to India searching for spiritual enlightenment. I found a neoliberal heaven that catered…
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The No-Selfie Doctrine: A Theological New Year’s Resolution
In an interview in the current issue of The Paris Review, James Wood asks Norwegian…
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Not a Review of Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?
Asking how you reconcile faith and science is sort of like asking, ‘How do you reconcile being a scientist and a Detroit Lions fan?’
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Top Five Toxic Religion Stories of 2014
From religious violence to fear of contagion to economic and racial injustice: taking full measure of what we are up against.
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6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks
In September 2014, I found myself standing before a mostly hostile Texas State Board of…
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Hide the Religion, Feature the Science: 60 Minutes Drops the Ball on Mindfulness
Anderson Cooper’s journey into mindfulness was featured on the latest episode of 60 Minutes, and it…
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Claiming Yoga for India
Modi’s recent efforts are mired in inaccurate myths of yoga’s static essence and Indian origin.
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Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’
Google’s mindfulness guru wants to “democratize enlightenment”—not through boots-on-the-ground activism, of course, but through a proliferation of wearable gadgets and prohibitively expensive mindfulness seminars.
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“Saving the Planet” Sounds Strangely Religious: A Response to Ivan Strenski
The ongoing debate regarding activism and the academy: climate change edition.
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Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle
Last Sunday evening, December 7, a plump pastor named Lee Minemann interrupted services in the…
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