Defending the Stranger
At the end of 2025, over 20 million viewers logged onto their Netflix accounts to stream the highly-anticipated third installment of Rian Johnson’s iconic murder-mystery series, Wake Up Dead Man: A Kn...
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Subverting Dominant Narratives about Early Christianity: An Interview with Georgia Frank
Georgia Frank is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religion at Colgate University. She is a specialist in early Christianity, especially in Greek-speaking communities during the fourth through seventh...
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One Nation Under God: Prayer in the U.S. Federal Government
n September 7, 1774, the Founding Fathers opened the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia with the prayer “O God of wisdom […]direct the councils of this honorable assembly […]in the name and th...
Slandering Satan: Baphomet’s Legal Battle Against Netflix
or those unfamiliar with the seminal piece of Christian fan fiction, Paradise Lost is the epic tale of Satan’s fall from heaven. In over ten thousand lines of British renaissance poetry, John Milton r...
Pricing the Stars: The Commodification of Astrology
he growth of astrology and similar occult practices in recent years reflects an increasing desire among young Americans to connect with something spiritual, something outside the technology-driven sec...
The Creation Museum, the Ark Encounter, and America’s Problem of Anti-Science
Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter are two attractions in Kentucky run by the Christian apologetics group Answers in Genesis. The Creation Museum, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2017, te...
The Romanticization of Billy Graham’s Non-Partisanship
Billy Graham, the famous American evangelical preacher, undoubtedly had a lasting impact on American religion and its relationship with politics. Graham, who passed away on February 21, 2018, served a...
Self-Immolation for Tibet: Why the Dalai Lama’s Silence is Costing Lives
Suffering under Chinese oppression, Tibet is one of the least free regions of the world. It is, in fact, the second to least free–behind only Syria–in terms of civil liberties and political rights, ac...
Dollar and Cross: Why Evangelical Support for Donald Trump is Unsurprising
election of Donald Trump forced a reckoning among American Evangelical Christians. Faced with a candidate who seemed to at least superficially embody many of the characteristics Evangelicalism condemn...
El Papa del Sur: Pope Francis, Four Years Later
13 marked the fourth anniversary of the white smoke – the fumata bianca – leaking out of the top-most chimney in the Sistine Chapel; Jorge Margio Bergoglio had been named pope, the first non-European...
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Cultural Destruction: A Crime Against Humanity
week, the International Criminal Court found Islamic militant Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to nine years in prison. Al-Mahdi now joins the ranks of Jean-Pierre Bemba,...
Unpacking Hillary Clinton’s Religion
June, Donald Trump said, “We don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she’s been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there’s nothing out there.” Trump’s assertion is wid...
Nuns v. Birth Control
lawsuit Zubik v. Burwell, argued on March 23 in the 8-member Supreme Court, involves a small religious minority locked in conflict with, once again, the Affordable Care Act. The suit consolidates seve...
A Pope, a Patriarch, and Distinctly Political Implications
February 12, in the VIP room of the Havana airport, Pope Francis of the Catholic Church and Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, who lead a collective 1.5 billion Christians worl...
The Resurrection of a Genre: Christian Films and Hollywood’s Polarization
ollywood has rediscovered religion,” wrote Tatiana Siegel for The Hollywood Reporter in their latest magazine. And, she appears to be right. This spring brings a new wave of Christian films from the b...
Fighting Fire With Brimstone: The Satanic Left and the Instrumentalization of Religious Freedom
most profoundly in the 2014 Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case, and iterated frequently in both political rhetoric and legal decisions, is the government’s obligation to define religious freedom — the Fre...
Winning With No One: Social Conservatism in an Age of Low Turnout
June of 2015, when the Supreme Court finally legalized same-sex marriage, many activists began celebrating the end of the culture wars. But while many view the court’s decision as the death knell to s...
The Niqab: The Unexpected Determinant in Canada’s Federal Election
October 19th, Canada found itself at a familiar political junction. Millions of citizens descended upon the polls to vote in the federal elections, collectively deciding which party would form a gover...
