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The Gospel of Primordial Androgyny

By Samuel Zinner | October 4, 2012

Forget one man, one woman. Jesus’s marriage could have been much, much more interesting.

H. P. Lovecraft. Image from The Los Angeles Times archives.

Dark Mysticism

By Scott Poole | November 2, 2011

H. P. Lovecraft as soulcraft.

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Just a Game

By Jason Anthony | August 12, 2011

Can a video game be a real religion?

"New Spirits"

Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t

By Quince Mountain | July 27, 2011

Apparently it still sucks to be gay and evangelical.

Still from The Tree of Life

Visualizing the Cosmos

By S. Brent Plate | July 11, 2011

Terrence Malick and an imaginary history of the universe.

Screening Room.

Mobilize and Contemplate

By Nathan Schneider | June 6, 2011

What’s spiritually at stake in The Tree of Life?

Loki from the movie "Thor."

The Trouble with Loki

By Eric Scott | May 30, 2011

Watching your gods become action heroes in the movie Thor.

Still from "Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then."

Falling Up

By Genevieve Yue | February 28, 2011

The fate of an unanswered prayer in Brent Green’s Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then.

"2008-03-15 Anonymous Hollywood Scientology protest" by Jason Scragz, via Flickr.

Killing the Thetan

By J. C. Hallman | February 11, 2011

On what The New Yorker’s coverage of Scientology lacks.

He is frequently known to need serious dental work.

Mortician or Priest

By Mary Valle | January 31, 2011

What kind of exorcist do America’s movie theaters really need?

Still from the movie "Ghost," with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze (1990).

The Sexologist’s Secret

By Arthur Goldwag | December 13, 2010

What a radical Victorian feminist really knew about love.

Mongolia_gobi03 by Alec East, via Flickr.

Only a God Can Save Us?

By Michael Steinberg | October 28, 2010

Peter Kingsley and the dangerous dream of a spiritual elite.

"SUBURBAN UTOPIA - Jefferson, Ohio" by joiseyshowaa, via Flickr.

Car Culture Audio

By S. Brent Plate | September 27, 2010

The purposeless driven life of Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs.

"Turn Left" by manitoon via Flickr.

What’s Left?

By Mark Bergen | September 16, 2010

Daniel Schultz parses a political theology.

First Baptist Church at Greene Street at Eigth Street in Augusta, Georgia, birthplace of the Southern Baptist Convention. Photo by Sir Mildred Pierce, via Flickr.

All Part of His Plan

By Josh Garrett-Davis | August 13, 2010

A new book bears witness to Baptist sexual abuse.

Mellissa Hughes and Matt Marks on the "The Little Death: Vol. 1" album cover.

Blessing the Childish

By Scott Korb | July 17, 2010

Jesus as cockblock in Matt Marks’ post-Christian nihilist pop-opera.

From "Holy Rollers," courtesy of First Independent Pictures.

High Like a Hasid

By Sabrina Jaszi | June 10, 2010

Big hats, good money, ecstatic pills.

Jason Castro on American Idol: "Praise Yahweh."

A Cold and a Broken “Hallelujah”

By Patton Dodd | May 26, 2010

Leonard Cohen’s song, baptized by American Idol.