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Last night, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during a press conference, opting instead to give a plainspoken but powerful speech on the police killings of black…

The World Trade Center Transportation Hub’s architectural centerpiece, named the “Oculus,” is an unsightly and inappropriate monument.

The American flag represents the nation state as a sacred entity—it serves as symbol for the nation’s self-worship.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog asks: “Does the internet dream of itself?”

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…

Trump’s chances just went down by 4.6%! A look at prophecy as spectator sport.

Disaster has a clarifying glamour. It promises to highlight virtue and reveal iniquity. Therein lies the problem.

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…

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.

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…