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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.  

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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Why Salma Hayek Adapting The Prophet for Screen Makes Sense
Brook Wilensky-Lanford, Culture, OMFG, RD BlogJune 2, 2014

Why Salma Hayek Adapting The Prophet for Screen Makes Sense

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Recently at the Cannes Film Festival, actress Salma Hayek premiered parts of her film adaptation…

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Guest Bloggers, RD BlogApril 14, 2014

Talking to Noah Screenwriter On Being an Eco-Wacko

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

“To not have those ideas in there…it’s like a weird editing job.”

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Archive, Books, StoriesMarch 31, 2014

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

We taste the bread, we smell the incense; you don’t have to put that down lower because you don’t understand the theological concepts. Don’t feel bad about having an experience involving stained glass windows; that’s not a trivial thing.

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Brook Wilensky-Lanford, RD BlogMarch 28, 2014

Making Space For All on Aronofsky’s Ark

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Biblical, not religious.

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Guest Bloggers**, RD Blog, Science & TechnologyMarch 19, 2014

Evidence of Big Bang Discovered!

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Why such a little bang?

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Guest Bloggers, RD BlogMarch 7, 2014

First Behind the Scenes Clip from NOAH…

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…to include disclaimer aimed at conservative Christian audiences.

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StoriesMarch 7, 2014

True Detective’s Occult Conspiracy

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

A reflection of the region’s complex religio-cultural heritage or good ol’ fashioned othering?

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Guest Bloggers, RD BlogFebruary 27, 2014

Bible Blockbusters and Christian Approval

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Noah, with its academy award-nominated director didn’t cut it, but Son of God is a lock.

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Brook Wilensky-Lanford, RD Blog, Science & TechnologyFebruary 26, 2014

Latest Shroud of Turin Theory: Nuclear Emissions

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Never mind the bollocks, shroudies push on. 

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