Over the last week I’ve had the chance to watch two different takes on alternative religions. The first wasGoing Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Alex Gibney’s brutal documentary that eviscerates Scientology. The second wasThe Book of Mormon, the hit Broadway musicals co-written by the names behind TV’sSouth Parkand Disney’s box office blockbuster,Frozen.
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Blogging is a funny thing. You never know which post is going to take off and which is going to sit there. Sometimes a post comes back from the dead.
Last spring I published this post merging a trope from The Walking Dead with spiritual practice. It was meant to sum up a series I was doing on science and religion. The other posts were popular, and I had this cute little thing where I tied one of TV’s most popular shows into my final thoughts on the matter, so I figured that post would get some views.
Nope. Nobody saw it. The post died pretty miserably. But apparently no one stabbed it in the head, because last month it came back to life.
Erin Lale
Fellow faculty at Harvard Divinity School posted an open letter to Wolpe in response to his article. It's available on this page, below the call for p...
Erin Lale
Here's another response. The Wild Hunt has a roundup of numerous responses on its site, but it carried this one as a separate article. It is an accoun...
Erin Lale
Here's another response. This one is by a scholar of paganism. It's unfortunately a Facebook post so this link goes to Facebook. She posted the text o...
Erin Lale
Here's another link to a pagan response to the Atlantic article. I would have included this one in my story too if I had seen it before I published it...
Janet Boyer
I love the idea of green burials! I first heard of Recompose right before it launched. I wish there were more here on the East Coast; that's how I'd l...