Garbage City is both famous and infamous around the world.
Vatican revamps norms to evaluate visions of Mary as it adapts to internet age and combats hoaxers
The Vatican on Friday radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena, putting the brakes on making definitive declarations unless the event is obviously fabricated.
Jewish Life Stories: Bob Dylan’s house photographer, and the TV reporter who got under Mel Gibson’s skin
Photographer Daniel Kramer, who served as Bob Dylan’s unofficial staff photographer during a pivotal year in the singer’s evolution from folkie to rock star, died April 29 in Melville, New York. He was 91.
Alienating even the sadistic Trumpian right, how did Kristi Noem miscalculate so badly with her puppy killing story?
In these fraught times, there remains one golden rule of politics that both sides of the aisle are able to agree on: Running as a puppy-killer does not a vice president make. In one of the worst unforced errors in…
Afro-Cuban drums, Muslim prayers, Buddhist mantras: Religious diversity blooms in once-atheist Cuba
The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans.
‘Young Sheldon’ Is Ending. So Is Its Idea of Science Versus Religion.
My mom was the one who told me to watch The Big Bang Theory. It was a show about nerds—and I was a nerd. She thought I’d enjoy it. A friend had already mentioned that the main character, Sheldon Cooper, was…
American Clergy in Colonial America
I spend a lot of my time on this Substack providing analysis of survey data, which makes sense because I am a social scientist and all. I think that’s the primary way that most of us are introduced to the…
Christian Billionaire Goes on Trial for Major Wall Street Fraud
Bill Hwang brought a book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer to court to read during jury selection.
Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’: Extraterrestrial Threats And The Death Of Atheism
Netflix’s new series “3 Body Problem” is a secular show that vividly wrestles with how the direct failures of the secular project have threatened the modern world and wrestles compellingly with non-religious answers on how to solve them.