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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Saint John Coltrane: Fifty Years of ‘A Love Supreme’
Getting lost in the music and found in the sound.
Read MoreDo White People Think Black People Are Magic?
Last week, media reported on a psychological study suggesting that white people are predisposed to…
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What Robot Theology Can Tell Us About Ourselves
There are places you never expect to be in life. For me, this was certainly one of them…
Read MoreRacist Ramtha Tirade: The Questions We Aren’t Asking
This week a news item has been making the rounds concerning a video of New…
Read MoreRaelian Swastika Campaign Calculated to Stoke Controversy
This weekend a plane flew over Coney Island and the Rockaways towing a banner with…
Read MoreThe Paranormal to Pop Culture Pipeline
Last week, Raw Story featured an unusual summer travel spot—The Occult Museum of Ed and…
Read MoreNoah vs. 1929 Epic Noah’s Ark
Ridiculously expensive to make and plagued by production disasters.
Read MoreMarianne Williamson and Me
We—especially those in academia and the media—have written off religion as divisive, outmoded and irrelevant just as we have trivialized spirituality as frivolous self-indulgence. As a result, our politics are soulless and our candidates’ calls for hope fail to translate into change.
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State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?
The surge of enthusiasm about State’s new agenda has too often carried with it the assumption that when the US government decides to engage religion abroad, religious Americans are best equipped to teach us how to do the work.
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