Stalked by The Plague, ‘The Maiden of All Our Desires’ Follows a Medieval Abbey at a Time When Monastic Life Was a Refuge for Women
A woman disappears, “taken by wind.” A one-eyed priest frantically carves a feminine-looking crucifix for…
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What Role do Feelings Play in Conspiracy, Racism and Climate Denial? Welcome to Phoning It In, Episode 1
Welcome to “Phoning It In,” a gameshow I made up because I am tired and…
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Reexamining the Shaky Theology That Gives Humans ‘Dominion’ Over All Creation
Dominion theology—the idea that humans are created uniquely like God and given godlike rule over…
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‘How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World’: An Interview with Author Elle Hardy
Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK…
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With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization
During our season of political madness, it took a lot to trigger a double-take, and…
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Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Countries’ is Just a Cruder Term for What’s Been Said in American Churches for Generations
In January 2018, the 45th president hit a new low in a closed-door meeting: “Why…
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The Missing Element in the Conversation on Christian Nationalism and Freedom: Whiteness
A new report released Wednesday by a trio of groups, both Christian and secular, on…
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Do Make Trouble: The Complex World of Radical Jewish ‘Revenge Theologian,’ Meir Kahane
Montclair High School recently found itself embroiled in a controversy of its own making when…
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‘We Remember a United States That Fought the Nazis’: A German Scholar of Fascism Weighs in on Christian Nationalism in the U.S.
“January 6 helped argue the case for fascist tendencies in Christian Nationalism,” Annika Brockschmidt tells…
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Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End
QAnon won’t last forever. Sooner or later, even if the failure of their prophecies doesn’t…
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