Author Archive
40 Years of The Exorcist
2013 marks not just 40 years of Roe v. Wade but 40 years of The Exorcist, the classic horror movie about piety and possession in a little girl's upstairs bedroom.
Schradle’s Links: Bask in the Reflected Glory of our Media Relevance Edition
Nathan Schradle Religious leaders are learning that they will be held accountable, to such an extent that they attempt to anticipate The Revealer's every move!
Schradle’s Links: PR Nightmare Edition
Nathan Schradle on the miserly, the groping, the fanatical, the pious and the vacuum.
Intersections: Plate Interviews Kelly J. Baker
S. Brent Plate continues his Intersections series with an interview about the KKK with Kelly J. Baker.
The Longest Hunger Strike
By Ann Neumann There are two places in the U.S. where you can be fed against your will: a Catholic hospital and a prison.
On Not Enjoying Zero Dark Thirty… For the Right Reasons.
By Angela ZitoThis is The War. The War is far, far away, on a screen. It is terrible and distant. And most of us have never been made uncomfortable by it for a nanosecond.
Will SCOTUS Tie the Knot?
Becky Garrison: What will a United States Supreme Court decision do for public opinion regarding same-sex marriage?
Removing the Magic
Quoting Charles Taylor quoting Schiller; from his essay "Disenchantment--Reenchantment" in The Joy of Secuarlism, now out in paperback.
Rewriting Indian Legends
Meera Subramanian The people on the streets of Delhi, are saying: We won’t disappear.
