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A new book of essays on the meaning of Avatar, is a down-in-the-dirt wrestling match between those who resonate with it and those who hate a film that’s been labeled pro-civilization and anti-civilization, pro-science and anti-science, un-American and too American, feminist and misogynistic, leftist and neoconservative, and pagan, atheistic, theistic, and animistic.

Please, for the love of the primordial, preliterate covenant of sound: leave George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” alone.

Because “it’s wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.”

Orthodox Church says march violates the rights of Christians.

Our history obliges LDS people to do better.

Mourning the loss of a scholar, an activist, a mentor.

An exchange over Francis’ first year.

Death penalty remains.

Anyone in the market for a Crystal Cathedral?

As Westboro Baptist Church’s Fred Phelps lies dying, a reflection on the difference between disagreement and hatred.