Netflix Removing Antigay Film Isn’t “Free Speech,” it’s Free Market
As Remezcla reports, sometime in the past month, Netflix Mexico yanked Paco del Toro’s 2016 film, Pink,…
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For Some of Us, the Biggest Religious Event of 2016 Was the Gilmore Girls Revival
The Internet functions as a sort of midway point between the personal and the public: you can be part of a community of fans, and yet you don’t have to bare the depths of your soul.
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CERN: Where Particle Physics Collides with Human Sacrifice (Apparently)
Almost no one was fooled last week when footage surfaced of what appeared to be…
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Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto
Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps…
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The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba
On a historic trip to Cuba this week, and in the wake of a terrorist…
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Hating Liberally: Why We ❤️ Zombies
Zombies are the perfect villains for our multiethnic, multireligious, multicultural, interconnected age.
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Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts
Editor’s Note: Among the trends that bear watching throughout America’s evolving Christian landscapes is a holistic rethinking…
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Don’t Be Tooken In by Kimmy Schmidt‘s Cult
For all its laudable qualities—its complex characters, its unwavering if imperfect commitment to tackling race,…
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The Hyperreal Kimmy Schmidt
Why ridiculous fake religion makes for such great binge-watching.
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‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood
With bonus: 12 Quotes from the Underwood Bible
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