Christian churches in America are social clubs. We do a nice job of providing excuses for people to exercise their instincts as a social animals.…
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Everyone's heard this self-help platitude: We need to love ourselves before we can love anyone else. This may sound wise, but it misses a great…
Author and esoteric theologian Richard Smoley talks about Canaanite deities, the apolitical Jesus, spiritual wine, and his new book How God Became God: What Scholars…
Descriptions for THE ExPat Files Show #579 #1 Did you know experts claim the first (or second) most beautiful lake in the world is in…
It’s become normal for Americans to demand—and receive-a professional assessment of the physical health of the candidates for president—just as they expect updates on the…
s Donald Trump’s campaign predictably moves from toxic rhetoric targeting the most marginalized minorities to threats and use of violence, there is a growing sense that…
The media is abuzz this week with the revelation that Justice Antonin Scalia died while on a hunting expedition with several prominent members of a…
The magical religion of Firstism in America has two regressive, infantile manifestations. For decades, rightwing chauvinism has worshipped America Firstism. Because the US is always…
Over the past several months, Donald Trump has famously said a lot of nasty things about Mexican immigrants. What’s less often noted is that he…
It was one of our team's weirder investigative discoveries: The recently departed Justice Antonin Scalia-- aleha hashalom-- in 2011, was ticketed for recklessly driving his black…
I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization. It died in…
Over the holidays, the New York Times ran a punishing profile of Marc Gafni, an ex-rabbi who reinvented himself as a New Age spiritual leader. A founder…