Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison
People make a lot of assumptions about prisoners’ faith that just aren’t accurate.
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Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting
It may be Women’s Week at the Vatican, but you have to look carefully at…
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David Brooks’ Rant on Emptiness of Secularism is Poppycock
New York Times columnist David Brooks is way behind the curve when it comes to post-theistic…
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Why Serra Should Not Be a Saint
There were no saints in the California missions.
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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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Muslim Women Create a Mosque of Their Own in Los Angeles
“I got kicked out of the last mosque where I felt safe,” says mosque co-founder.
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A Church With a Hole In Its Heart: An Excerpt from Peter Manseau’s “One Nation Under Gods”
In the dry red soil of Chimayo, New Mexico, there is a hole in the…
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Fake, Evil, Spiritual, Commodified; What’s the Truth About Popular Yoga?
What inspired you to write Selling Yoga? Near the beginning of my graduate school career, I…
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As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire
Professor Daniel C. Maguire’s latest book, Christianity Without God: Moving beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving…
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From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside
Every June 18 for more than 25 years, Veronica Lueken—a Catholic housewife from Bayside, Queens—gathered…
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