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Faith in the Five Boroughs

For your Friday viewing enjoyment, a video from the new documentary series Faith in the Five Boroughs, documenting faith and religion in New York’s immigrant communities. This one is about…

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Holy Mother of Bathsheets & the Clothesline Revival

KtB friend Alyce Santoro is at it again, with the simple wisdom of her ongoing Clothesline Revival: harness the advanced, clean, nuclear technology of the sun! This time, she’s taking…

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An Interest in Women

Unearthing what two New Orleans brothers—a priest and a photographer—did with their spare time.

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Prothero on Video

Why can’t a book just be a book anymore? Now, it turns out, if you write a book, you also have to make a video, write a blog, tweet on…

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Lewis and Billy Blowout!

Thanks to everyone who came out to BookCourt last night to enjoy a fine evening of reading by Lewis Lapham and sermon and song by Reverend Billy and the Church…

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American Mythology

For a Halloween special, Buddha-killer E.J. Park shared with us this wonderful film of his, the story of a mystic Jew in search of the American dream. (He meets the…

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The Calling of Reverend Billy

Why in tarnation is a performance artist running for mayor of New York City?

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Exiles in the Promised Land

This short video montage is based on footage and photos from my recent trip to Beirut, Lebanon. I was privileged to spend time with the people of Shatila, the Palestinian…

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Eureka Springs

Gumby the Christ figure looks over a small town in the Ozarks.

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God Saved the World

They’re not who you’d usually expect to meet at a monastery.