There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS
“Institutions do not usually make for the most thrilling reading,” John Fea writes at the…
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Is Religion to Blame for Violence? Karen Armstrong’s Flawed Case
Just as I finished Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood, which is a very extended attack on…
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Life in the Jamestown colony, pious as colonists were, was more hell than heaven.
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Portrayals of the bible like this latest miniseries don’t just materialize out of thin air.
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The Bible miniseries is more miniseries than Bible.
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Welcome to the greatest story never sold.
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