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Religion Dispatches
The American flag represents the nation state as a sacred entity—it serves as symbol for the nation’s self-worship.
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Religion Dispatches
Filmmaker Werner Herzog asks: “Does the internet dream of itself?”
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Religion Dispatches
Almost no one was fooled last week when footage surfaced of what appeared to be a human sacrifice at the CERN nuclear research facility in Geneva, Switzerland. Footage taken at night from a CERN…
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Religion Dispatches
Trump’s chances just went down by 4.6%! A look at prophecy as spectator sport.
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Religion Dispatches
Disaster has a clarifying glamour. It promises to highlight virtue and reveal iniquity. Therein lies the problem.
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Religion Dispatches
The moment I entered the Black Woman is God exhibit in San Francisco’s SOMArts gallery, I knew I was on sacred ground. I found myself treading gingerly, trying not to disturb the spirits of ancestors…
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Religion Dispatches
Those panicking over the rise of the Nones have been looking for the youth in the wrong places and asking them the wrong questions when they do find them. Christianity, and a very orthodox Christianity at that, is hiding in plain sight.
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Religion Dispatches
The kickoff to the reality show known as the Republican National Convention went off as expected—with satire, chaos on the floor, and religious wing-nuttery. Good thing I got my popcorn popped ahead…
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On the windy bluffs of Weehawken, New Jersey, overlooking Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr regard one another coldly. In awful synchrony, the pair raise their flintlock pistols, each one…
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Last week we watched death on our smartphones. We witnessed the light drain out of Philando Castile’s eyes and we knew that the stillness of Alton Sterling’s body after the bullets were fired was that…
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