Via Jokes, ChatGPT Chooses Which Religious Traditions and Figures Deserve Respect — And Therefore What Counts as ‘Religion’
ChatGPT is all the rage. It even drives some people into a rage. It does…
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How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power, and Exclusion
Gratitude operates like resentment. When we find ourselves in a position of owing—and people in a democratic society always owe something to other people—we may become vulnerable to control.
Read MoreIs Alcoholics Anonymous a Religion?
Attempts to criticize the efficacy of AA on the basis of its scientific credibility, or its degree of rationality (not to mention attempts to defend it on these bases) reflect a grave misunderstanding.
Read MoreMust We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine
If we think about Catonsville not just as a curiosity, a minor episode in the history of radical chic, but as a provocation or a template, what do we learn? Must Americans burn something to get attention? Must religious protesters be arrested?
Read MoreFaith-Baiting in Minnesota and Elsewhere Follows the “Project Blitz” Playbook
Critics say any such display of the Ten Commandments in this way, may also violate the Oklahoma state constitution. But whatever the fate of these bills, the Christian Right and the politicians who cater to it have a long game in mind, and most seem unaware of the game itself.
Read MoreWhy Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?
It’s not that Republican politicians and strategists had become convinced of critical theory’s questioning of how scientific knowledge is produced. It’s that their desire to undercut the “realist attitude” and their love of uncertainty about the true had appeared to strangely dovetail with some postmodern theorists.
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A New Book For Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity
In The Death of Race, theology professor Brian Bantum explores how issues of race and gender are theological complexities fundamental to understanding humanity’s place in the world.
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“Let It Be Glorious”: Sunday Night Worship With Chance and Bey at the Grammys
When I listen to these albums, it feels like church, it feels like home.
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Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017
Is the eve of Trump era the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb?
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Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History
With all the memes wishing a good riddance to 2016, and John Oliver’s epic send-off…
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