The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017
Cinema and religion are never far apart—both bring light to darkened places. Sometimes the illumination…
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What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right
19th century women’s rights activist Matilda Joslyn Gage sought equal rights for all, but only by rethinking religion.
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In the evangelical world in which I was born and raised, Elisabeth Elliot (who died…
Read MoreFrom the “God Beat” to the “None Beat”
What reporters get, and don’t get, about the latest Pew report on religious identity.
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Saint John Coltrane: Fifty Years of ‘A Love Supreme’
Getting lost in the music and found in the sound.
Read MoreThe New Church: Sexual and Ethnic Diversity… and Drums!
The third iteration of the National Congregations Study, led by Mark Chaves and Shawna Anderson,…
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The Sacred Objects of 9/11
Mark Schaming is the director of the New York State Historical Museum in Albany. Soon…
Read MoreWhy All the Jesus Films?
Notes from the interview with Son of God directors.
Read MoreOscar Gets Religion: 7 Categories We’d Like to See
No Bible in this year’s Oscar nominees, and not much in the way of supernatural—but plenty of religion, if you know how to look for it.
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What Would Ai Weiwei Do? What the Smashing of a Million-Dollar Artwork Has to Teach Us
On Sunday, Dominican-born artist named Maximo Caminero walked into the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and smashed a million-dollar vase. Caminero’s complaint? That local galleries put all their time and effort into international artists of high esteem, and forsake the locals. But here’s the thing: iconoclasm is itself an iconic act.
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