Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem
On October 8th, 2019, Jameela Jamil, one of the lead actresses on the surprising hit…
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More Than Big Hair and Money: Jim, Tammy Faye and the Media “Holy Wars” of the 80s
What inspired you to write PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical…
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The “Religion” Episode: Aziz Ansari and the Cultural Politics of Muslim Self-Representation
To call Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series Master of None “peak TV” is not to do…
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The Passion of the Slayer: On Buffy’s Twentieth, “The Big Bad” Is Still Out There
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To the uninitiated, it sounds like a bad joke. That’s your…
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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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ABC’s Hit Sitcom Black-ish Does God, Pushes Theological Respectability
ABC’s black-ish dismantles narrow depictions of black religious life.
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Transparent Season 3: The Intersectional Messiah
Rabbi Raquel’s voice asks us: “What if you had to be your own messiah?”
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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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The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans
The following essay contains some minor spoilers. – eds. Imagine a world where robots look,…
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Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood
Michael Long’s new book, Peaceful Neighbor, dares to place Mister Rogers in his social, historical, and political context.
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