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Applications are in for “.islam” and “.shia”—with some big implications.

An old conspiracy theory says gun control leads to genocide.

Son of God and Noah don’t just represent two different ways to read Scripture, two different ways to make films, and two different marketing demographics. They also represent two sharply different ways to believe, to be in the world.

The 25th anniversary of the Jesus Seminar is a good time to ask if it makes a difference when the Jesus of history turns out to be considerably more interesting than the myth-encrusted Christ created by the church over the centuries.

The law will trump politics here.

A struggle between two modern and intertwined mythologies of evil, True Detective ultimately fell back on the easiest of formulas.

Seriously.

Just as the revelation that Teresa MacBain falsely represented her educational background shouldn’t become an excuse for atheist bashing, neither is it acceptable to act as if attending DDS would have drastically altered MacBain’s path—though of course that is always a possibility.

Zombie media makes clear distinctions between the human and the zombie—and killing them saves us. Yet, there are resonances of a more complicated vision of the zombie. What if remnants of humanity linger in those resurrected corpses? Or what if zombies represent something fundamental about humans that we need to examine?

“Religious freedom” warrior Archbishop Lori and Boston’s Cardinal Law pushed for investigation.