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Religion Dispatches
Is Obama pulling a Dukakis, allowing all that anger and anxiety that could’ve been used for good to just slip away?
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Religion Dispatches
A religious scholar in Egypt recently warned against listening to broadcasts of the Qur’an, as the mediating influence is disrespectful to the text. But what of disregard for human agency?
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Religion Dispatches
The Institute on Religion and Democracy tells us that the ideal of romantic love is weakening the bond of marriage. Perhaps they’d like a return to the whole “women as property” thing? Or is it that marriage is solely for procreation?
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Religion Dispatches
The numbers may be low compared to global-scale disasters of recent years, but there is a wrenching poignancy to what is happening in Uttarakhand right now. Many of the forces that frame daily life in South Asia are suddenly on display like a raw wound: the wages of development and globalization, the power of the natural world, divine agency, altruism, self-interest, and the political nature of both government action and religious ritual.
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Religion Dispatches
Obama gets question from atheist at townhall meeting.
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Religion Dispatches
The President is reaching out to faith leaders to help reframe the health care debates in moral terms, and religious progressives are heeding the call(s).
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Religion Dispatches
In his new book, Richard Landes argues that in addition to the obvious End Timers many secular movements—the French Revolution, Marxism, Nazism—can be better understood as millennialist or apocalyptic.
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Religion Dispatches
The way we live will lead, inevitably, to the extinction of half of the planet’s biodiversity by century’s end. How can our morality, or our religion, prepare us for this?
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Religion Dispatches
World’s first Chassidic Reggae superstar off the derech.
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Religion Dispatches
When I conducted a focus group at this church, the end times seemed to be on everyone’s mind. When we talked about caring for the environment, “Craig” cautioned that it was important to draw the line between protecting the creation and worshipping it, while “Julie” agreed, adding that, “like with the polar bears and stuff, of course I don’t want them to die, but you also have to realize this is just a part of the world coming to an end like it’s supposed to. And there’s nothing really that they can do.”
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