For months I've been starting, not finishing, re-starting, still not finishing, pieces on Christian Nationalism (CN)- or, more precisely,...

For the New Year, let’s recall two milestones on the Christian Right from the past year. One of the key architects of that movement, Pat...

Sometimes humor only works in distinctive niches with particular background presuppositions. Whether it will land in this case, I'm not...

This post is cross-published here on Narrative Paths Journal I fielded a query from a University of Tennessee campus newspaper about...

Imagine that a shark has a fish literally inside its jaws, but cannot bite down. Prayer is like that. It is like a “toxin” that makes you...

NOTE: I am publishing tomorrow, in October 2024, a note to link back to this article which has continuing relevance even though it first...

…Or… if you want to watch, or already did—if you are into that sort of thing—let’s compare notes. The production was fascinating in...

What do we remember? How do we remember? What good does it do? I started this post while the media's weekly dose of infotainment was...

I just published an article in the American Studies journal, Quarterly Horse, which features concise scholarly interventions. Here it is...

There isn’t much point in sending readers of this little blog to Reading Religion, the American Academy of Religion’s review portal—I...

In both classes I am teaching this term, I heard matter-of-fact comments about how end-times theologies correlate with “fatalism”—which...

Earlier I discussed a reporter who wanted a sound-bite about “religion” in the south—and how I wrestled this into “True and Useful...

Before I began my previous post, I imagined an introduction to set up a lightly edited version of some notes I prepared for a reporter....

NOTE: I've tagged this for "oldies but goodies," partly because it's a follow-up to my piece on Chris Hedges referenced below, and...