David Sheen is an independent journalist and film maker originally from Toronto, Canada who now lives in Dimona, Israel. Sheen began blogging when he first moved to Israel in 1999 and later went on to…
Kathryn Gin Lum is a historian of religion and race in America and the author of Heathen: Religion and Race in American History and Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction…
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