Cue the Kool-Aid: Watching Jonestown Docs in the ‘Fake News’ Era
Documentaries have always been artificial constructs blurring the line between fact and fiction, but new developments have changed the stakes.
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Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org
One of the nation’s largest campus ministries has demanded that its LGBT-affirming staff quit by November 11th.
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#VanillaISIS, White Tears and the Adventures of Captain Moroni
Reading between the hashtags as Twitter responds to the Oregon standoff.
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Defending Minority Religions, Despite Some Bad Practitioners
In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor…
Read MoreAs a “Cult Leader” Disgraced Pastor Mark Driscoll Does Not Rank
Mark Driscoll used Pacific Northwest aesthetics to kindle an audience for Mars Hill Church’s conservative,…
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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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Graeme Wood on ISIS: No Such Thing as Objective Critique
The debate continues to deepen over Graeme Wood’s Atlantic cover story on ISIS: Murtaza Hussain…
Read MoreThe Racial Dimension of Trusting in Police Violence
Though many religious leaders have sought to turn Mike Brown’s death into a movement for…
Read MoreFor Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates
Is it believable that the Pro-Life Action League, a group with a spotty past, has published identifying information of abortion-rights activists in order to help supporters pray for individuals?
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LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy
Utah judge Clark Waddoups strikes down part of polygamy law in case of Sister Wives’ Kody Brown, ruling that although the state has the right to deny people more than one valid marriage license at a time, Utah’s anti-cohabitation laws violate the Browns’ First Amendment right to freedom of religion and elements of constitutional due process.
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