Christianity

On Sunday morning, news broke that Walter Mercado, the famed, flamboyant Puerto Rican astrologer, had died. The announcement was met with an outpouring of heartbreak from Latinx people all over the world, many concerned for how their mamis and nanas would han…

Kanye West's new counter-cultural, Jesus-praising album has generated a ton of public discussion since its release. Now, it has also generated a new record for its creator. A story at Billboard explains that Kanye West's "Jesus Is King" album, which was rele…

Vikings. The word evokes ferocious warriors, swords, battleaxes, and bloodthirsty raids. Most of what we know about the Vikings, however, are exaggerations written by people who encountered them. There is a way for us to hear the Vikings speak for themselves:…

The best thing about podcasts is that you can listen to them while youre doing other things: Washing dishes, going for a run, coloring, and especially, driving. But there are so many podcasts these days that its simply impossible to keep up. New ones are debu…

Posted November 03, 2019 05:00:13 "We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." So says Jimmy Gator in the 1999 film Magnolia. Twenty years later, that line retains its authenticity. There's just no point in denying that everyth…

It’s become a common refrain that what modern evangelicals do is not true to the spirit of Christianity, that it’s somehow a betrayal of Jesus’s message. Here’s a fine example of that kind of apologetics. We need to be really clear on something, because ther…

Kanye Wests latest album Jesus Is King lives up to the name in lyrical content, and is so full of Biblical references that it caused a spike in people searching for answers about Christianity. According to Faithwire, Jesus and What do Christians believe? saw…

— Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell A movement for religious rights is transforming the place of religion in American public life. From the 1960s until very recently, liberals successfully argued at the Supreme Court that the tyranny of t…

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn’t a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the horror genre. Between The Exorcist, The Conjuri…

Everyone has an opinion on Kanye West. This is a man who has become as well known for his inflated ego as his songs. His music, which fellow rap artists have hailed as genius, has often veered away from gangster posturing in favour of more thoughtful observat…