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Religion Dispatches
Blood, warfare, and Nostradamus-style speculation make for good entertainment.
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Religion Dispatches
“Do You Believe?” asks the wrong question.
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Religion Dispatches
Easter is the most Rocky-like story in the Christian canon. There’s blood, a sudden reversal, and finally a moment of triumph. Every time the story seems to end, some miracle prolongs the action…
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Religion Dispatches
For all its laudable qualities—its complex characters, its unwavering if imperfect commitment to tackling race, class, and sexual violence—Tina Fey’s new Netflix comedy, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt…
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Religion Dispatches
In the kitchen of his Charleston, S.C. home, wearing a flower in his hair, life coach and entrepreneur JP Sears explains, in a recent video, that, “being gluten intolerant used to be limited only to…
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Religion Dispatches
Despite its possible roots in Christian lore (the death of Jesus having occurred on a Friday) or the phenomenon of triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13), the happenstance of the thirteenth day of…
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Religion Dispatches
Why ridiculous fake religion makes for such great binge-watching.
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Religion Dispatches
With bonus: 12 Quotes from the Underwood Bible
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