What Happens When We Use Horror Movies to Interpret the Real World? 10 Questions for the Authors of ‘The Exorcist Effect’
What inspired you to write The Exorcist Effect? Over twenty years ago, Michael Cuneo wrote…
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Netanyahu’s Genocidal Religious Rhetoric isn’t Just an Appeal to the Israeli Right — He Has Another Constituency in Mind
As a horrifying humanitarian crisis unfolds in Palestine/Israel, observers have been alarmed by the Israeli…
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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory
One of the most dangerous things about Donald Trump is the way he has normalized…
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Biden’s Embrace of ‘Victory Culture’ is a Victory for Toxic White Christianity
Every new day reveals fresh hints of Joe Biden’s wish to be remembered as a…
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Mitt Romney, the Public Face of Mormonism, Reckons with His Alienation From a Radicalized GOP and His Role in Enabling it
Riding high from his tenure as the moderate governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney was anxious…
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Ecumenical ‘Exorcist’ Sequel Reflects Profound Cultural Changes Since the Catholic Original
Please note: spoilers ahead. Stop me if you’ve heard this one: three evangelicals, an atheist,…
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Decadence, Sickness, and Death: Mourning and the Israel-Hamas War
Irving (Yitz) Greenberg once said about talking or writing about the Holocaust, “Don’t say anything…
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It’s Not the Name It’s the Theocratic Vision — THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’S PR PROBLEM
The rifts in the New Apostolic Reformation that emerged last year have erupted into a…
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Uncovering the (White) Christian Roots of Slavery, Native American Genocide, and Ongoing Efforts to Erase History
When he started to do the research for his new book, The Hidden Roots of…
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Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead
Germany has often been lauded for its memory culture and its reckoning with its fascist,…
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