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      GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident
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      The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition
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Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Brook Wilensky-Lanford is author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, a former editor-in-chief of Killing the Buddha, and a contributor to The God Beat: What Journalism Says About Faith and Why It Matters. She received her PhD in Religion in the Americas from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her writing has been featured in The New Republic, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker online, and elsewhere. Follower her on Twitter @modmyth.  

(A)theologies, Archive, OMFGJuly 27, 2021

Gen Z’s Religious Affiliation Stats Are Confusing … But Only When Viewed From a Christian-Centric Perspective

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Recently, Atlantic writer Derek Thompson tweeted an image of two graphs of religious survey data….

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Archive, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/Gender, Special Features, The Cubit, UncategorizedJune 6, 2016

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Did I really need to learn How To Be Here, urgently, right now? The book’s…

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Archive, CultureApril 20, 2015

The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Venerable Jewish publication becomes a “none.”

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(A)theologies, Books, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, OMFG, RD BlogOctober 23, 2014

Karen Armstrong, Caped Anti-Anti-Muslim Crusader?

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

When a friend recently saw me carrying around a galley of Karen Armstrong’s latest book Fields…

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Brook Wilensky-Lanford, OMFGAugust 28, 2014

Public Prayer Verdict Shows Its True Colors

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

This May, the Supreme Court’s Town of Greece vs. Galloway ruling allowed sectarian invocations at…

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Archive, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, CultureAugust 14, 2014

Magic In the Daylight

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Woody Allen’s new movie, Magic in the Moonlight, is loosely based on a story that’s…

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(A)theologies, OMFG, UncategorizedAugust 5, 2014

Thank You, Satanists

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Last week in a blog post here, I suggested that those of us disheartened by…

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Brook Wilensky-Lanford, OMFG, RD Blog, Sexuality/GenderJuly 24, 2014

Fight The New “Hobby Lobby” Religious Order: Get Ordained

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Like many of you, I’ve been spending much of July fuming over how to properly…

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Brook Wilensky-Lanford, Culture, OMFG, RD Blog, ScienceJune 24, 2014

Your Pseudoscience Beach Read: Creationist Infighting Edition

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

As Joe Laycock noted here on RD, another creation museum called the “Northwest Science Museum” recently opened in…

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Archive, Culture, StoriesJune 11, 2014

Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group’s “Early Shaker Spirituals”

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

The subject of The Wooster Group’s latest work, Early Shaker Spirituals by the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake,…

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