Film
How Bible Salesmen Paved the Way for Capitalism to Devour Evangelicalism
The classic documentary Salesman, which turned 50 this year, presaged our current age of megachurches and Christian influencers.
Christianity
Art
A Black American Artist Explores Her Refusal of Christianity
“Direct Downward Cut at the Head; Overhand Knife Thrust”; “and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped”; “To them God has appeared as a Negro”; "syntactical slips and breaks" — these are a sample of the bits of text affixed to the walls in Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s On Refusal.
Art
Documenting the Vanishing Hermitages of the Egyptian Desert
Constructed from stacked rocks and carved into remote mountainsides, the desert hermitages of Egypt and Sudan are barely perceptible in the arid landscape.
Books
Praise the Lord! The World's Oldest Bible Goes on Display at the British Museum
For only its second time on loan, the earliest known Bible is going on view this October at the British Museum.
Books
Five of the World's Largest Religious Manuscripts, from Devil's Bible to Buddhist Labyrinth
Marcel Proust may have written a novel over 4,000 pages long, but there are other books out there of goliath proportions not in their length, but their size.
Art
Inside the Christian Pockets of the Middle East
In the United States, Canada or Europe, where Christians form the religious majority, it's strange to consider parts of the world where they are not only uncommon, but also persecuted.