What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media
Last week a six-week-old baby died in Suceava, Romania during his baptism into the Romanian…
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2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism
The 2021 National Prayer Breakfast (NPB), held annually the first Thursday in February and attended…
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The Bible May Be Stranger Than You Think … And Why It Matters
Despite the Bible’s ubiquity, despite the Bible’s appearance as a book like any other on…
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Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’
Brother Laeo Mystwood looks at the camera, his body obscured by a 3D avatar. He…
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Stop Trying to Save Jesus: ‘Fandamentalism’ Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism
If you’ve spent much time around fandoms, online or off, you’ve surely heard something like,…
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After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right
When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, most news reports focused on…
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Making Muffins and Troops for Spiritual Warfare: The Godly Women of Instagram
Selfies and photojournalists’ images reveal mostly white men at January 6th’s Trump rally and siege…
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Does Biden’s Inauguration Signal a ‘Third Reconstruction’?
Steny Hoyer was right, and we should thank the House Majority leader for clarifying things….
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The Inauguration’s Beautiful Call for Unity Was Undermined by the Invocation of Religion
There’s a reason religion and politics are forbidden topics in polite conversation: they’re divisive. Mixing…
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Today’s Inauguration Was a Reconsecration of Sacred Space
C’mon, admit it: you had the Kleenex handy while you watched the swearing-in of the…
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