Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now
Anyone who saw last year’s standout documentary, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters, probably noted a brief, sober coda to…
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What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed
For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books…
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The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music
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American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets
A handful of conservative groups are frothing at the mouth over the current season of American…
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This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.
Will they have gluten-free treats? Is white chocolate structurally racist? Are brown M&M’s offensive? Isn’t…
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Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”
After Kathryn Schulz’s eviscerating portrait of Thoreau in the New Yorker, the nineteenth-century nature boy…
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The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience
When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. One upshot of…
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If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts
Ridley Scott’s The Martian just had a massive $55 million opening weekend. Matt Damon stars…
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The Question is: What Kind of Football Does God Fancy?
After leading his team to victory over the Seattle Seahawks last Sunday, Green Bay Packers quarterback…
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The Second Coming of Black Jesus
In the first season of Adult Swim’s Black Jesus, the titular hero discovers that the tomatoes…
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