Facebook’s “No Religion” Policy Hoax
Do we just want to believe?
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Daily Show Takes on Noah’s Christian Haters
Don’t worry, be happy.
Read MoreIs Evangelicalism Too Nice?
Liberal and orthodox evangelicals battle over the future.
Read MoreNoah, Cosmos Controversies Not About Biblical Literalism
The Noah controversy has more to do whether or not Aronofsky approached the sacred text with the proper reverential attitude, placing himself under the authority of scriptural truth; Biblicism is the issue, not biblical literalism.
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UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion
Opponents decried the Charter as a thinly disguised attack on religious minorities, especially Muslim women […] and to that extent, a sign of Quebec’s lamentable endorsement of a broader Islamophobia that has swept the Western world in the post-9/11 context. The defeat of the government at the polls on 7 April would seem to indicate that the agenda of the Charter has now come to an end.
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Five Flood Stories You Didn’t Know About
The Flood story forces us to grapple with the deeply impersonal forces of the universe that are set against human civilization.
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Who Gets to Decide if Noah is Biblical?
The battle rages over whether Darren Aronofsky’s popular new film is faithful to the Bible. If nothing else, it’s faithful to the long tradition of interpreting bible stories in a particular historical context.
Read MoreNoah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices
The crafters of biblical stories knew that people came in variety and accounted for that in their narratives. Not so Aronofsky.
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Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies
Son of God and Noah don’t just represent two different ways to read Scripture, two different ways to make films, and two different marketing demographics. They also represent two sharply different ways to believe, to be in the world.
Read MoreMuslim, Immigrant, Teenager…Superhero: How Ms. Marvel Will Save the World
We first meet Kamala at her local Jersey City deli, where she stares at a BLT sandwich longingly, whispering to herself, “Delicious, delicious, infidel meat….”
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