A review of the “faith-based” flop Black Easter and what its failure reveals about conservative Christian media today

A Review of Richard Kent Evans’s book MOVE: An American Religion

A review of the film Shiva Baby and its focus on Jewish culture, sexuality, and tense family expectations

A Review of Tulasi Srinivas’s The Cow in the Elevator

Science fiction's antisemitic history and how a new TV series inverts those longstanding anti-Jewish themes

A review of the film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and its portrayal of the singer as a...

A review of the documentary Making Sweet Tea and its portrayal of Black gay men in the South and...

A review of the racial and religious messages in the HBO horror series

A book review of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians

A review of Jesus and John Wayne and a reflection on evangelicals, masculinity, and race

A review of Netflix's documentary about Walter Mercado, an eccentric Puerto Rican celebrity astrologer

A review of the show's portrayal of American Muslims and queer identities

A personal reflection on the conflict in Israel/Palestine and a review of Lis Harris's book.

A review of Greg Grandin’s book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in...

A review of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's exhibition, “Cultures in the Crossfire: Stories from...

Iconoclasm can be a method of radical critique

Two new biographies emphasize the importance of religion in Thoreau’s life and work.

On the disappointment of seeing and (not) believing

What scientists and psychonauts tell themselves about their work and why it matters

How a book from 1967 helps us understand a dystopian future

A review of Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton

Eden Consenstein reviews Blessings of Business: How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity by Darren Grem

Sharrona Pearl reviews Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment by Carolyn Moxley Rouse, John L. Jackson, Jr.,...

Why isn't there more religion in Ava DuVernay's "A Wrinkle in Time"?