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The Sacred and the Dead: Truckin’ as a New American Pilgrimage

By Varun Soni

…and devout fan base that literally spent their lives following them from concert to concert, city to city, state to state, and country to country. Known as Deadheads, the devotees of the Grateful Dead collectively formed an intentionally itinerant community numbering in the tens of thousands, with their own customs, vernacular, art, and economy. In his explanation of the lure of the Grateful Dead to thousands of Deadheads around the country, Garci…

Dispatch from Charlottesville: “It Was a War Zone. It Felt Like There Were a Million Nazis.”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…hould also say, is where the clergy presence took space—at one of the entrances of Emancipation Park. And there were roughly 40 clergy people. And white supremacist protesters barricaded through them. So neo-Nazis rammed through the group of uniformed, collared clergy inside the barricade? That’s right. While uniformed police officers stayed inside the barricade. That’s right. Wow. Rev. Traci Blackmon’s interview with Joy Reid interrupted (at 2:30…

Missing the Anger for the Shoes

By Hussein Rashid

…socially maladjusted individuals. Unfortunately, there is no common experience with non-Muslims who do not have any disciplinary problems of any sort. It would not be a stretch to say a Muslim nation has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with consistently high capital punishments per capita. It would be hard to imagine a non-Muslim country with any of these problems. This issue of discipline is why the shoe is so symbolically importa…

The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?

By Ed Simon

…it with Passover, as the Orthodox still do). There were some other differences as well, including the style of tonsure, or haircut, worn by Irish monks, but otherwise the faith as believed by Christians in northwestern Europe was the essentially the same as that promulgated at the Council of Nicaea in 325, the same Christianity as that in Rome. The idea that Celtic Christianity was uniquely different, perhaps even in opposition to Roman Christian…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…s were a case of FEMA using the Katrina disaster, deliberately or through incompetence, as a pretext to give Robertson a windfall of cash. This is a clear contender for the top ten list, though it doesn’t make today’s five because it’s just barely possible that Robertson did some good in New Orleans, just as it’s possible that he is doing some good in Haiti now. My actual top pick is Robertson’s casual contempt for, and celebration of outright reb…