The Paranormal to Pop Culture Pipeline
Last week, Raw Story featured an unusual summer travel spot—The Occult Museum of Ed and…
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The Battle To Define ‘Avatar Spirituality’
A new book of essays on the meaning of Avatar, is a down-in-the-dirt wrestling match between those who resonate with it and those who hate a film that’s been labeled pro-civilization and anti-civilization, pro-science and anti-science, un-American and too American, feminist and misogynistic, leftist and neoconservative, and pagan, atheistic, theistic, and animistic.
Read MorePop Star Ke$ha Punks Westboro Baptist Church
God smacks this world.
Read MoreMichelle Shocked Show Shut Down After Anti-Gay Rant
RD readers would not have been surprised.
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Goodbye to Amy Winehouse, Living Celebrity Dead
The street bordering Winehouse’s apartment has become a shrine that includes vodka and beer. While it may sound unseemly, some see it as a natural expression of our imagined relationship with the supernatural.
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TV’s 9 Best Christmas (and 1 Festivus) Clips
I’m dreaming of a televised Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know.
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8 Great Hanukkah Clips from TV
‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?
Stories are dangerous. They have the ability to re-make the world. The Harry Potter Alliance was founded to create a Dumbledore’s army of Harry Potter fans that work for justice in the real world.
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Facebook: Internet Highway to Hell
Pastor admonishes his flock to steer clear of Facebook’s many lures and tempations.
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Vatican Paper: Simpsons are Catholic
When Fox television aired a new animated show in 1989 about an odd, dysfunctional family from Springfield, no one had any idea how far it would go.
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