In the News: Prisons Churches, Museums, and, of course, Hobby Lobby
Your body is a battleground by Barbara Kruger It’s been a while since we gave you a round up of religion and media news stories, but boy-oh-boy is this summer chock-full of ’em. To start, here are some...
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FRIENDS OF THE REVEALER Cover image for “Oh God Oh God Oh God: Essays on Sex and Religion: A Killing the Buddha E-Book” Brook Wilensky-Lanford and Gordon Haber co-edited a fantastic collection of...
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Louis Waynai and his wife with the complete King James Bible they hand printed in Los Angeles, CA, in 1930 FRIENDS OF THE REVEALER At The Marshall Project (By the way, are you reading The Marshall...
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Screenshot from “Doom” By Don Jolly On December 9th, 1993, Senator Joseph Lieberman laid out an ultimatum to the videogame industry. He and fellow Democrat Senator Herbert Kohl were disturbed by the...
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Gold is an essential part of Roma culture, especially for the queen of the witches, Maria Câmpina. Photo by Lucia Sekerkova REVEALERS Maurice Chammah has done a ton of really great reporting for Vice...
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Photograph: Desmond Boylan/AP MARRIAGE EQUALITY We take off one day of link gathering last Friday and looks what happens: Nationwide marriage equality! First, if you haven’t read them already, the full...
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We’ve said it before and will probably say it again, there just isn’t anything that Ta-Nehisi Coates writes that we shouldn’t all be reading. This week, “Letter to My Son” an excerpt from his upcoming...
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The Pilgrims Going to Church, by George H. Boughton, 1867. By Patrick Blanchfield “But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer...
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First of all, let’s all breath a collective sigh for relief: the doomsdaysayers were wrong again! Good. Now for some news. First up, some new work by some friends of ours: REVEALERS Peter Manseau...
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CHRISTIANITY Really only because we wanted this amazing Gif front and center, we’re going to start off this month with some stories about Christianity. One of our most beloved and inspiring heroes,...
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