For Better or Worse: The Rise of the Professional Wedding Celebrant
“Morning Joe” co-anchors Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough made headlines when they announced their recent…
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Wheaton College Would Like to Pretend Its LGBTQ Students Don’t Exist
Queerness keeps popping up at Wheaton College, and the evangelical flagship keeps pushing it down. …
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‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering
Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, Damn, (stylized “DAMN”) has been number one on the Billboard charts for the…
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Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization
In the days of the Trumpian order, American LGBT Muslims, a minority within minorities, find…
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This Is How You Lose Them: Why “Generation Z” Won’t Be Flocking To Churches Anytime Soon
Evangelicalism’s routine disengagement toward what matters to younger, more inclusive generations will only hasten its slide into irrelevance.
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VIDEO: Sam Bee Roasts “President Pence” in America’s Coming Theocracy
While some of Washington’s most revered journalists were being roasted by The Daily Show‘s Hasan Minhaj…
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VIDEO: “First-Generation, Indian-American Muslim Kid” Makes Fun of the President. Onstage.
In hosting the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time Saturday, The Daily…
Read MoreNetflix Removing Antigay Film Isn’t “Free Speech,” it’s Free Market
As Remezcla reports, sometime in the past month, Netflix Mexico yanked Paco del Toro’s 2016 film, Pink,…
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“I Speak to God in Public”: Are Young Black Millennials Reclaiming a Theology of Resistance?
If the numerous think-pieces and essays on “Coloring Book” were any indication, one could surmise that Chance’s popularity was in part because of his public embrace of his faith, not despite it.
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Church of Pain: Religion, Ritual, and the Body in the New Serial Spin-Off, “S-Town”
A wildly popular podcast uses religion as its final reveal—a “church” devoted to the art of the tattoo, and to drunken discussion of the work of George Bataille.
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