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The kids are alright, but the parents can be so cruel.

Cuba gets its first seminary since the 1959 revolution.

The Dalai Lama was just in Atlanta, visiting Emory University’s “Emory-Tibet Science Initiative.” There he spoke about the easy relationship between Buddhism and science. When you whittle it down to its essence, Buddhism is very simple and amenable to Enlightenment types.

An exclusive Religion Dispatches interview with the late historian of religions Mircea Eliade, conducted (by seance?) via Ira Chernus:

Maybe. But there are better explanations.

(Some Idiosyncratic) Alt-Rel-Rock Playlists

Alternative rock, with its default anti-establishment stance (whether feigned or forthright) has not been the typical go-to place for sincere religious music. That may be changing. Though stylistically diverse, several recent releases show a unique motif: treating religious histories and sacred texts as fonts of wisdom, experience, and poetry.

Even if they did, that’s not why they lost.

“The preschool teacher used to say to the kids, ‘Close your eyes, and ask God to give you a piece of candy,’[…] When the children opened their eyes, and saw there was nothing there, the teacher said, ‘See? God doesn’t exist.’”