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Take your monsters seriously. The language of metaphor and symbol is not enough to explain and explore their meaning. You may just want to be left alone with your tub of popcorn but there are layers and layers of meaning in the horror genre…and a larger historical experience the monsters we love were born from.

A roundup of the week’s religion stories.

A Kansas City Bishop and his Diocese were indicted for failure to report an egregious case of child abuse. Still?

In speech at Liberty University, Bachmann conflates knowing Jesus with freedom from socialism.

An epic First Amendment fail.

In her latest book Patricia Churchland eschews the simplistic reductions of popular media in favor of nuanced and self-consciously incomplete explanations, but it does share one shortcoming that plagues her peers.

The organizer behind the Kol Nidre service at Occupy Wall Street says the Jewish establishment has asked Jews to “check our social justice values” at the door.

It’s still too soon to say social conservatives are finished.

The scapegoating of immigrants is a global problem, one that flares up in different countries, depending on local circumstances. We must not imagine that the United States is immune to such violence.

“It’s been a rough month.”