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Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Brook Wilensky-Lanford is the author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden (Grove Press, 2011) and the editor-in-chief of online literary magazine Killing the Buddha.

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, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, New Books, 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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Brook Wilensky-Lanford, Culture, OMFG, RD BlogJune 4, 2014

Mad Men’s Matt Weiner, Warrior Against Woo

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

So we’ve always known Mad Men is not your typical view of the 1960s, but…

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