The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017
Cinema and religion are never far apart—both bring light to darkened places. Sometimes the illumination…
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Captain America: Civil Religion (And Why Donald Trump Thinks He’s Batman)
As of this writing, Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War is 2016’s biggest movie worldwide. If pop…
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Battlestar Galactica and the Future of American Religion
What does a sci-fi hit have to tell us about ancient Greek theater and today’s electronically-inflected cultural landscape?
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Can Expelled Teach Us a Thing or Two?
Comedian Ben Stein’s new documentary on the persecution of Intelligent Design advocates in schools is rife with errors and distortions, but there’s much to learn about the failure of science teaching.
Read MoreWhy Darwin Keeps Coming Back
1925, 1955, 2005 and now, Ben Stein; It refuses to die because “the debate about evolution is not about evolution at all.”
Read MorePost-Zionism or Post-Judaism?
The Zohan and Restless are significant as indicators of the current state of Zionism, but without engaging Jewish tradition and regional politics, they remain celluloid fantasies of sex and the city.
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