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      The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’
    • Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence
      Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence
    • Rush Limbaugh’s Race-Baiting and Gaslighting of Obama Paved the Way for Trump
      Rush Limbaugh’s Race-Baiting and Gaslighting of Obama Paved the Way for Trump
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    • The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’
      The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’
    • Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence
      Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence
    • No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity
      No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity
  • Religious Liberty
    • What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media
      What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media
    • 2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism
      2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism
    • Blinken and ‘Blinkered’: Two Oath-of-Office Stories Embody a Divided America
      Blinken and ‘Blinkered’: Two Oath-of-Office Stories Embody a Divided America
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
      It’s Time for Democrats to Read the Bible Verses on the Wall and Stop Courting White Evangelicals
    • We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
      We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory
    • 11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You
      11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You
  • New Books
    • Watch: Is The Religious Left a Mirage or Are Journalists Just Missing the Story?
      Watch: Is The Religious Left a Mirage or Are Journalists Just Missing the Story?
    • Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
      Pulitzer-Prize Winning Historian’s Latest Reveals the Problem with Today’s ‘Religious Freedom’
    • ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical
      ‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical
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Jason Anthony

Jason Anthony, a deputy editor at Time Inc., is also a game designer who works at the intersection of games and ritual. His most recent piece, The Hush, was developed in Turkey this past summer and has played in London, New York and San Francisco.

(A)theologies, CultureDecember 10, 2012

Photo of a Dying Man: The Journalist’s Job

By Jason Anthony

We rely on a journalist to just stand by—it’s a practical act of witness: while you report the story you stand in the presence, neither blinking nor stepping up. 

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(A)theologies, CultureDecember 10, 2012

Should the Post Have Published Photo of Subway Victim?: Two Opinions

By Jason Anthony

Is it simply a part of the conflicted role of the journalist or does the photo’s work as cultural catharsis ignore the specific agony of the victim’s loved ones?

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