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Victim-Blaming After the Zombies Come

By Caralyn Davis | October 28, 2015

Is preserving our own beliefs better than reaching out to help others no matter what the personal cost? I contemplated this thorny issue watching “JSS,” the second episode in season…

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We Are Living Reminders

By Kelly J. Baker | September 3, 2014

HBO’s The Leftovers and grief

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Televised Prayer: Rev.

By Kaya Oakes | July 8, 2014

People don’t pray on television. Let me rephrase that: when people pray on television, they pray badly. They ask God for stuff, and then they get it. Television prayer is…

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Confessions of a Former Purist

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford | October 10, 2013

I’m not such a huge fan of the TV show Homeland these days, but the second episode of Season 3, which aired Sunday, might be winning me over. Brody’s daughter…

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Dark Mysticism

By Scott Poole | November 2, 2011

H. P. Lovecraft as soulcraft.

Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon.

Kathryn Lofton’s Oprah Trilogy

By Nathan Schneider | May 25, 2011

Kathryn Lofton, one of the cleverest young religion scholars out there nowadays, has a trio of op-eds celebrating (sort of) the last episode of Oprah’s TV show: “What Was Oprah?”…

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Stephen Colbert’s New Religion Consultant

By KtBniks | March 30, 2011

Our very own Stephen Prothero is the new Religion Eye for the Colbert Guy.

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Buddha-Killing on Network TV

By Mary Valle | January 24, 2011

My good husband brought this to my attention. In this recent episode of Fringe, Pacey from Dawson’s Creek gives the book If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill…