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Karen E. Park

Karen E. Park is the co-editor of American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism (Fordham, 2024). She writes the Ex Voto newsletter, which you can subscribe to for free here.

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Thrift-Store Bibles and the Execution of Renee Good

The seeds of the misogyny are found in some of the most glittery places
Renee Nicole Good’s extraordinary award-winning poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” contains a line I keep coming back to: i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores (mashed them in plastic trash bags…
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Posters of Renee Good in Minneapolis read: American Mom Murdered by ICE
Religion Dispatches

Of Course It Was Shit

Calling Trump's "No Kings" AI video droppings 'brown sludge' misses the religious significance
The AI video reposted by Donald Trump in response to the No Kings marches has been called everything from “juvenile” to “unhinged.” But as both Michelle Goldberg and Anne Applebaum have pointed out…
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icon detail shows Arius voiding his bowels
Religion Dispatches

Charlie Kirk is Well on His Way to Political Martyrdom – But Will He Become a Christian Martyr?

As soon as he was shot, before he was even pronounced dead, Charlie Kirk was already being transformed into a martyr–not a political martyr who dies for a cause ( although that language is developing…
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