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The Little Death
This Friday, musician Matt Marks's "post-Christian nihilist pop opera" The Little Death will be staged at Galapagos Art Space in…
“Jesus was a Fighter”
Read The New York Times' report on Xtreme Ministries in Clarksville Tennessee, a hybrid church and mixed martial arts academy.
Texas Board of Ed. ratifies new textbook standards
Last Friday, the Texas Board of Education ratified---with a seven-vote margin---a series of controversial new textbook standards, reports TPM's Justin…
Christopher Hitchens shows God how it’s done
In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens takes a stab at re-founding western culture.
A new twist in the Texas textbook case
Justin Elliot of Talking Points Memo reports that Don McLeroy, the "top conservative activist on the powerful Texas Board of…
Glenn Beck now telling you what church to attend
Glenn Beck has now decided to tell you what church to go to. In a recent episode, reports Politics Daily,…
Christian militants wreak havoc on sex lives of Texans
At Think Progress, Lee Fang reports on the recent actions of Repent Amarillo, an evangelical militia in northern Texas.
Religion and the civic imagination
Since the publication of Robert Bellah’s 1967 article “Civil Religion in America,” discussions of the topic have tended to devolve…
David Bazan’s (break-up) record
This month's Christianity Today features an interesting interview with (formerly) Christian indie-rock star David Bazan on his most recent release…