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Religion Dispatches
Et tu, Beyoncé? #ReclaimtheBindi wants to challenge cultural appropriation of traditional symbols.
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Religion Dispatches
Note: last November, The Cubit asked religion scholar Alan Levinovitz to review Derek Lin’s new book, The Tao of Happiness, Stories from Chuang Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey. Alan wrote his…
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Over the holidays, the New York Times ran a punishing profile of Marc Gafni, an ex-rabbi who reinvented himself as a New Age spiritual leader. A founder of the Center for Integral Wisdom and organizer…
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This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage of the intersection of religion and science—those too-familiar stories in which religion and science are…
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Since its inception in 2006, SoulCycle has done two things really, really well. First of all, it has turned the stationary biking class—a.k.a. spinning—into a fashionable, upper-crust, New-Agey…
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Rob Bell is on the move. In 1998, as a 28-year-old evangelical pastor in Michigan, Bell founded Mars Hill Church. The community swelled into a megachurch, and Bell gained a national reputation among…
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Cubit co-editor Andrew Aghapour collaborates with Ultra-Spiritual JP Sears on his latest video to discuss science, religion, and why journalists will be replaced by robots.
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Strap on your Fitbit and shop at Whole Foods instead of, you know, sitting down and thinking about how to be a good person.
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In the kitchen of his Charleston, S.C. home, wearing a flower in his hair, life coach and entrepreneur JP Sears explains, in a recent video, that, “being gluten intolerant used to be limited only to…
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