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With bonus: 12 Quotes from the Underwood Bible
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Bill O’Reilly’s Biblical Misremembering
The Bible is full of mistakes.
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As Luke Coppen noted in a recent piece in The Spectator, Francis “has been spun…
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Jesus Backs Gender Equality at the Oscars
In her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress, Patricia Arquette called for equal rights for…
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David Carr didn’t want you to trust him. It’s a funny thing about journalists and…
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Why This Lie? Brian Williams’ Pulpit Fiction
The deafening whomp-whomp-whomp you may have heard when Brian Williams got caught in a lie…
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‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars
It is as if, by professing how much we hate all images, we in turn profess how much we really, in the end, love our images more than all others.
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In Monday’s New York Times, I wrote a fairly innocuous sentence that was upsetting to some:…
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Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs
As 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march, many Americans will…
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