A Very Perry Christmas

December 7, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom:  It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Christmas tree lots sprouting up like weeds, Christmas lights...

One Verse at a Time

December 1, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom: There are trending topics, and then there are trending topics. Like the kind that will last 86...

Spice Up Your (Church) Life

November 9, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom: Apparently, the Roman Catholic Church is at risk of death by boredom. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the...

Keeping Up with the Kanasanis

October 27, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom: Step aside, Kardashian family. “Jersey Shore”? So last season. If you totally want to be...

Arrested Development

October 25, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom:  It’s hard out there for a protestor. Occupying Oakland? Get arrested. Occupying Wall Street? Also get arrested...

Calling Nazi

October 24, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom: Thank God for celebrities, you know? Like, for real. Because without them, how else would conservative religious...

First, Do No Evangelizing

October 6, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom: New in the world of right-wing medical care: meet the American College of Pediatrics, “a national...

God is in the Games

October 5, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom: As I made clear in a previous post, I am not a gamer nor techie nor...

Discount Jesus

September 29, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom: Jesus saves but maybe he shouldn't sell. At least, not cell phones. And especially not during Easter. The

Qu’est qui ce passe en France?

September 28, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom: What's up with France?  President Nicolas Sarkozy of France joined President Barack Obama here in New...

In Lieu of Hobbits

September 6, 2011
An interview with Jeff Sharlet about his new book of essays, Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithless, and...

God is in the Kudzu

June 29, 2011
Ashley Baxstrom: I love summer – you’ve got the ice cream, the green trees, drinking out-of-doors, and the pleasurable...

The Urgency and the Lunacy

June 22, 2011
A Q&A with biographer Deborah Baker, author of The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, released last...

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