science and religion

Since the 1990s the Discovery Institute, a conservative think-tank, has tried to make it easier to teach intelligent design in public schools. They have had some successes, and one big setback: in…

Libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel takes his Christian faith seriously.

If Whole Foods and Joel Osteen got together and had a child, it would probably look something like Herbalife. The nutrition company takes the transformative promise of natural products, mixes it with…

Speaking broadly, white supremacist ideas rest on two premises. One is about power. The other is about nature. The power side we’re all familiar with: the idea that racial categories should define…

Last week, The Cubit published an interview with Chade-Meng Tan, best known for his work as Google’s in-house mindfulness expert. He asked us for the opportunity to elaborate on some of the key…

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, an annual day of observance that was formally established by Congress in 1952. The law that establishes a National Day of Prayer ( 36 U.S.C. §…

If the words “corporate” and “mindfulness” no longer sound strange together, it’s partly because of the career of Chade-Meng Tan. A software engineer from Singapore, Tan joined Google in 2000 as…

Best-selling psychologist David P. Barash has religion all figured out: God the Father is simply the ultimate alpha male.

Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps technology’s unstoppable progress—ever more pervasive and persuasive—has grabbed us in a fearful…

If you happened to walk past San Francisco’s Parc 55 hotel this past weekend, you would have seen a most unusual sight: Two women bound on the sidewalk in chains as Satanists cover them in ashes and…