How Pop Music Mainstreams Religious Weirdness
With its devils and aliens, pop music can be a “window on the weird”, sweeping odd material lodged in subcultural pockets into the broader currents of culture.
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‘Hail Satan?’ Is Devilishly Fun
Documentarian Penny Lane challenges you to leave behind your preconceptions and give the Devil his due in this irreverent, entertaining look at the Satanic Temple, Hail Satan?
‘Aquinas and the Market’ and the Possibility of a “Truly Humane Economic System”
With Aquinas and the Market, economist and theologian Mary L. Hirschfeld begins a necessary conversation between economic and theological sectors, in the academy and, one hopes, outside the ivory towers and seminaries, to calculate our ultimate worth.
Disobedience Is Essential: Interview with Filmmaker Sebastián Lelio
Sebastián Lelio reflects on his first English language feature, Disobedience, and how art, the individual, and society benefits from rebellion against one’s own worldview.
New Atheism’s Gender Problems
Can critical humorists help combat the sexism inherent to both religious and secular organizations?
All the Right Intentions Can’t Bring ‘Boy Erased’ to Life
The tragedy of conversion therapy is confronted in Boy Erased, a well-meaning but perfectly conventional message movie.
Gay Conversion Therapy Onscreen: Joel Edgerton On ‘Boy Erased’
Actor-director Joel Edgerton details the sensitive process of making Boy Erased and how the film could act as a lifeline for families who have experienced gay conversion therapy.
Stand-up, Scandal, and Satire: On Iain Ellis’s ‘Humorists vs. Religion’
Is a "theology of humor" viable?
The End of Endings; or, Why Won’t Anyone Stay Dead?
What does it mean when our stories and our characters, unlike our lives, refuse to come to an end?
The Devil’s Music: How Evangelicals Harnessed Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Devil’s Music shows how religious conservatives spent as much time studying popular culture as condemning it and have learned its lessons more effectively than progressives.
Stephen King: ‘America’s Dark Theologian’
Horror might not be a replacement for the absolutism of religion, but for Stephen King its proved to be both a lucrative and at times life-long examination of what exists behind locked doors.
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