Transparent Season 3: The Intersectional Messiah
Rabbi Raquel’s voice asks us: “What if you had to be your own messiah?”
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But What Did We Learn? Hate-Watching the First Clinton/Trump Debate
Hillary Clinton came to work. Donald Trump came to perform.
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Religion and Resistance at the New National Museum of African American History and Culture
A Q&A with the Rev. Yolanda Pierce, director of DC’s new Center for the Study of African American Religion.
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How Protesting Black Bodies are Imagined as a Threat to National Pride
Last night, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during a press conference,…
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The Belly of the Beast: NYC’s Shiny New Transit Hub Is All Wrong for the 9/11 Site
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub’s architectural centerpiece, named the “Oculus,” is an unsightly and inappropriate monument.
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Why Kaepernick’s Refusal to Stand Is an Act of Religious Dissent
The American flag represents the nation state as a sacred entity—it serves as symbol for the nation’s self-worship.
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Lo and Behold, the Sacredness of the Internet
Filmmaker Werner Herzog asks: “Does the internet dream of itself?”
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Free Will, Fate and FiveThirtyEight: The Theology of Election Polls
Trump’s chances just went down by 4.6%! A look at prophecy as spectator sport.
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Come Hell or High Water: How the Melodrama of Disaster Leaves Us Vulnerable
Disaster has a clarifying glamour. It promises to highlight virtue and reveal iniquity. Therein lies the problem.
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I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple
The moment I entered the Black Woman is God exhibit in San Francisco’s SOMArts gallery,…
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