Heaven is All-American
Heaven is for Real isn’t about young visionary Colton or angels or even God. It’s about Rev. Burpo’s ongoing exisential crisis.
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A Good and/or Bad Friday
Faith got me though my cancer even as I considered and dismantled the apparatus of faith that had been installed in my head.
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Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby
Roman Polanski’s 1968 horror flick—among others in the ’60s and ’70s—may provide some surprising insights into the GOP’s “War on Women.”
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Easter: The Underdog Holiday
Once a major factor in shaping the modern calendar, Easter has fallen in significance, to put it mildly, which is another reason I think it’s tops. I tend to like underdogs and faded glory. I live in Baltimore.
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All Candy, No Jesus: Halloween in America
We Americans don’t like to talk about death or the dead, and since many Protestants have difficuty with Catholic practices around prayer to the saints and prayers for the dead, our practices around All Saints’ and All Souls’ days have drifted in very different directions, leaving more space for the secular, non-religious practices around these festivals.
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