‘We All Live in the Great Database in the Sky’: On Silicon Valley and UFO Culture By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Highlight “The idea seems to be that we all live in the great database in the sky, occasionally summoning aliens with our minds.” Emily Harnett explores Silicon Valley’s appropriation of UFO culture.
‘It’s a Perfect Profession for a Con Artist’ By Michelle Weber Highlight Personal assistant? Start-up founder? Professional long-lost sister? No, Southern Baptist pastor.
Power to the People By Michelle Weber Highlight With Warren Jeffs in jail, Hildale, Utah has an opportunity to become a real town that serves and protects all its residents, no matter their faiths.
Land Not Theirs By Madison Davis Feature Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: A Reading List About Witches By Sara Benincasa Reading List Witchcraft: it’s spirituality, it’s a philosophy, it’s a lot more than flowy black dresses and cursing your exes.
Positivity Is Relative, Depending on Which Side of the Fighting You’re On By Michelle Weber Highlight “I was not a fallen creature in a broken world reliant on grace, but a Marine in a successful army that had all the answers.”
Father of Disorder By Jessica Wilbanks Feature One woman finds insight into her father’s rage in the scientific concept of entropy.
The Post on Anti-Semitism I Never Thought I’d Write By Sari Botton Highlight Like many non-religious Jews of my generation, I naively assumed Nazism could never rise — and hurt us — again.
Ancestor Work In Street Basketball By Onaje X. O. Woodbine Feature The basketball court is a place where young black men feel comfortable mourning death, but are there crucial elements missing from their grieving practices?
‘I Loved God, I Loved Believing’: An Interview with R.O. Kwon By Victoria Namkung Feature Not only will I never get my faith back, but I’m going to keep missing it. I’ll always have that longing — but there’s no going back into the garden.
To Reflect, To Love, and To Protest: A Pride Month Reading List By Emily Perper Reading List A roundup of longreads to celebrate Pride Month.
A Woman’s Search for Salvation, Love, and Family By Danielle Jackson Highlight A woman searches for love and belonging inside and outside of the Christian church.
Meet the New Mormons By Sarah Scoles Feature Is it possible to be queer, lefty, and a Latter-Day Saint? After leaving the church, Sarah Scoles sets out to understand liberal Mormons.
The Hole in My Soul By Sara Eckel Feature Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
‘I Feel Closer to My Faith Than I Did Before’: Holding On to Ramadan By Danielle Jackson Highlight Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on why he still fasts during Ramadan.
Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood By Aaron Gilbreath Feature A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
The Religion No One Talks About: My Search For Answers in an Old Caribbean Faith By Sarah Betancourt Feature Writer Sarah Betancourt explores her connections to Espiritismo and Santeria.
Grown-Woman Theology By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.
Casting Out Satan and Your Religious Upbringing By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight How one woman struggled to make sense of the exorcisms she witnessed as a child.
Finding My Identity By the Light of My Mother’s Menorah By Santi Elijah Holley Feature The African American son of a white mother, Santi Elijah Holley revisits Hannukahs past with his Jewish forebears.
Your Own Personal Jesus-Lite By Michelle Weber Highlight Elizabeth Harper traveled to Bonito, Italy to visit Zio Vincenzo. Long-lost relative? No, miracle-working mummified corpse of a nameless Neapolitan.
The Prophet Will See You Now By Michelle Weber Highlight At the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, miracles (supposedly) happen every day.
Harnessing His Superpowers for Peace in the Middle East By Howard Lovy Feature As an 8-year-old with OCD, Howard Lovy hoped his magical thinking might persuade God to end the Yom Kippur War.
God and Stone: One Woman Explores Her Armenian Roots By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A young woman reconnects with her family’s ancestral home.
Architecture and Religious Bias: A California Case Study By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight When a group of Sufis wanted to build a large sanctuary in the California hills, locals pushed back and the town grew divided.
The Celebrity Jesuit Connecting With LGBTQ Catholics By Emily Perper Highlight Father James Martin wants to change the relationship between the queer Catholic community and the Church.
Under Hubbard’s Eye By Sari Botton Highlight To scientologist Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale speaks to the importance of separation of church and state, rather than the dangers of religious extremism.
One Nation, Under God, With Liberty and Justice for Some By Michelle Weber Highlight Although a lot about Donald Trump seemed antithetical to conservative Christianity, he got a larger percentage of the Evangelical vote than Bush, Sr., Reagan, or Carter. Why?
When ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Isn’t Fiction By Pam Mandel Highlight Growing up in the fundamentalist Christian “Quiverfull” movement, Hännah Ettinger saw her own story in Atwood’s vision.
