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Apologia pro Reza: Why I like Believer
I am a comparative historian of early Christianity who reads widely in and engages in academic forums around new religious…
The Muslim Marvel
At Religion Dispatches, TIF editorial associate Wei Zhu reviews the landmark first issue of Ms. Marvel, which features a teenaged Muslim girl…
A whole earth
Brook Wilensky-Lanford shares her thoughts on the closing MoMa exhibit "Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968-1974."
The rise and fall of Christian rock
Meghan O'Gieblyn, writing for Guernica, forays into the history of CCM, or Christian contemporary music, which also happens to be…
Cults video throwsback to Jim Jones
Indie band Cults has released the official video for "Go Outside," which brings the fascinating and tragic story of the…
Is there anybody out there? (Pink Floyd and Charles Taylor)
In the Frankfurter Rundschau, Hartmut Rosa hears the echoes of Pink Floyd in the work of Charles Taylor.
Beyond denial
For a brief moment in 2007, news of a hit Iranian television series, whose Farsi title was translated variously as…
After Oprah
On the occassion of the final broadcast of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Kathryn Lofton reflects, in an On Faith article, on…
O is for Ozarks
O is for Oprah. O is for Ozarks. Can the second embrace the first? Though Lofton stays away from the…