Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair
A younger Paul Schrader might have chosen to end this film, which many critics are calling his masterpiece, in apocalyptic violence. But I don’t think it’s quite right to conclude that Schrader has...
View ArticleWhy Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful
I have had the honor of working extensively with the Rev. Dr. William Barber II,...
View ArticleRubio’s Awkward Balancing Act Between Evangelicals and Catholics
Marco Rubio’s “Faith” evangelical outreach ad, which debuted in Iowa over the weekend, can be seen...
View Article‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood
With bonus: 12 Quotes from the Underwood Bible
View ArticleNo Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead
Title: Talking to the Dead: Music, Religion, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women Author: LeRhonda...
View ArticleToward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren
What McLaren is after is a Christian faith that is not automatically hostile to other faiths and to no faith: he calls this “strong-benevolent” Christianity, observing along the way that only active...
View ArticleFaith and Football: What the Gospel Church Can Learn from the NFL
Who knew it would turn out that the NFL has a thing or two to teach the gospel church about love, acceptance, and the struggle to overcome in a world of injustice?
View ArticleHerman Cain Sings For the Press
Jesus may be looking beyond the candidate's faults, but we're not.
View ArticleComing Out As a Heretic
For folks who are unorthodox but aren’t atheists, who care about metaphysics but who aren’t mystics, perhaps the good old-fashioned term “heretic” will satisfy.
View ArticleHarold Camping Is Not Sorry
Harold Camping admits he was wrong, but only in the most technical way. He wasn’t really wrong, he is saying, because he trusts God, and was just passing God’s false prophecy along. It’s not that he’s...
View ArticleAn Atheist Hero is Something to Be
Faith is completely redundant. It may take a long time for people to figure out it’s redundant, but given what we know about psychology and the way the brain works and the way evolution has taught us...
View ArticleA Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left
I’m not an unbeliever. No way. My theology is fuzzy, a bit of a smorgasbord—Emerson and Tolstoy and Jesus and Augustine. I would be happily worshipping with Quakers if I could find any; the “inner...
View ArticleWhere Do “Sacred” Values Live in the Brain?
For the research subjects’ sacred values, the ones they wouldn’t give up on for any amount of money (they could ‘auction off their value’ for up to $100), what lit up in the brain were areas known to...
View ArticleGod Wants You to Work Harder, and to Stop Complaining
So-called “workplace spirituality” teaches people that the anxieties associated with global capital are inevitable, even part of the natural order of things. Under the highly deregulated conditions...
View ArticleAmericans Lose Faith, Sinning with Transfats, the Elusive God Particle
A roundup of the week’s religion headlines.
View ArticleDo Atheists Belong in the Interfaith Movement?
The atheist and the interfaith movements actually share a common point of origin: they both started, in part, as a reaction to religious extremism. Much like the atheist movement, the interfaith...
View ArticleMelissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith
“As a black, feminist, marriage-equality advocate I reside at an important intersection in this struggle. This movement must acknowledge the unique history of racial oppression, while still revealing...
View ArticleTeach Your Children Well: Challenging Religion-Based Sexism
During my lecture I faced a standing room crowd of heretics, fence sitters, curiosity seekers, and true believers bracing for a circus sideshow. Traveling across America to speak on freethought and...
View ArticleUnreasonable Doubt: Vincent Bugliosi Defends Agnosticism
When he’s not writing bestselling books, Vincent Bugliosi is a legendary prosecuting attorney. As such, he is certainly well acquainted with the legal policy of presumption of innocence. His newest...
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