As its annual policy conference kicks off this weekend, AIPAC tamps down concerns about a US-Israel rift, but still faces its worst fear in a challenge from US military commanders.
This week’s episode asks big questions about psychology and religion, and reminds us that a dog is a robot’s best friend.
Both evolutionary theory and climate change have scientific consensus, but explain that to state lawmakers seeking to ‘teach the controversy.’ In a way, it doesn’t matter to them which they criticize—their goal is a denial of the validity of science itself
Healed of the Sin of Religion
Sara Miles was a journalist and a chef who wandered into a San Francisco church one Sunday and got religion. We talked to her about her newest book, Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead.
Losing Old Gods, Finding Nature
Ten questions for Bron Taylor, whose latest book Dark Green Religion holds that traditional religions are gradually being replaced by more sensory forms of spirituality which promote more sensible, ecologically adaptive behaviors.
Yearning For A God We Can Live With
Against the ascendancy of the so-called New Atheism, two new books argue for a God who transcends “god-management systems” and whose primary claim on us is through our own spiritual longing.
Monks With Guns: Discovering Buddhist Violence
The co-editor of a new book on the history of Buddhist violence and warfare explains how the notion of a purely mystical and otherworldly Buddhism—promoted by some of the great interpreters of the tradition—denies its adherents’ humanity.
Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism
20th century Jewish aspirations for a revived national home were supported by three centuries of Christian enthusiasm for the return of the Jews to "their land."
I diagnosed the death of “the black church” deliberately to provoke a conversation about the role and place of black churches in this momentous present. My aim was to re-deploy an age-old strategy to unsettle conformity with a standard view of “the black church” as necessarily prophetic and/or progressive. That story obscures more than it illumines. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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