Tag: Crash Course Religions
Crash Course Religions
It’s taken me over a year to watch and reflect on this 24-episode series that explores the...
Crash Course Religions #24: Religions and Pop Culture: Fandom, Fiction & Truth
This series, Crash Course Religions, began by asking what makes a religion a religion, noting the...
Crash Course Religions #23: What Does Religious Freedom Mean? A Problem When Multiple Bubbles Collide
I love how Crash Course Religions just jumps right in on the deep end of a question and doesn’t...
Crash Course Religions #22: Visions of the End of the World & One Personal Expiration Date
I think I just wrote on this subject a couple weeks ago (Click HERE for previous article). ...
Crash Course Religions #21: What Does Race have to Do with Religion? And You Can’t Learn from a Past That You Deny Exists
While the idea of “race” can be understood as a human invention, the need to be able to identify...
Crash Course Religions #20: What Do Sex and Gender Have to Do with Religion? It’s Complicated
Non-western cultures recognized more than two genders… not surprising. That the Talmud,...
Crash Course Religions #19: Are Science and Religion Compatible? Is It a Worldview Thing?
Yes… Would that that response to this question were so simple. Thinking about this problem...
Crash Course Religions #18: Religion, Spirituality and The Supernatural – Smorgasbord Anyone?
Most important question to answer related to this video is, yes, they are still making “Christmas“...
Crash Course Religions #17: Death and Afterlife Across Religions And What Isn’t In the Bible
I’m taking a course at the Biblical Studies Academy called Demons and Ghosts in the Bible, and a...
Crash Course Religions #16: Who Speaks for a Religion & Your Religious Journey
I love Crash Course Religions because they do not shy away from topics that are very important to...
Crash Course Religions #15: What Does Ritual Have To Do With Religion… Again?
Ritual. Funny that John Green begins this video by remembering a specific behavior that he used to...
Crash Course Religions #14: How do Religious Texts Work? And Not Being Stuck with just the Old Ways
That’s such a great way to begin this conversation: the sacred texts didn’t change, but the...
Crash Course Religions #13: Is Atheism a Religion? Again?
I wrote an essay about this question back in the day (before I was posting essays on the...
Crash Course Religions #12: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism: Chinese Popular Religion
There’s a joke that I heard one time about when the Dalai Lama when to order pizza and the person...
Crash Course Religions #11: Religions of the African Diaspora & Diversity
After getting my B.A. in Biblical Studies at Biola University and abandoning my Masters in...
Crash Course Religions #10: The History and Practice of Islam on Earth and Beyond: The Many from the One
When I moved to Las Vegas in 2016 I was happy to find a thriving humanist community that has...
