The Revealer

How is vaccine hesitancy in America like a religion? Kira Ganga Kieffer, author of Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America, joins us to discuss connections between vaccine hesitancy and religion. What factors contributed to large numbers of people expressing skepticism at pharmaceutical companies and medical authorities? What led to a...

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On a cold, breezy February night in Manchester, Hannah Spencer, a plumber-turned-politician, did something no Green Party candidate had ever done.

As intermittent rain fell, the results came in and she’d won a Westminster by-election, giving her a seat in Parliament before the next United Ki...

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Film to be Witnessed

“This is like no film that I’ve ever seen. …It is also heartbreaking and so unfortunate to me that it has to exist. …And lastly, and more importantly, I think what makes this film not only timely but timeless is the voi...

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A young attractive priest, skilled as a boxer, experiences a crisis of faith. Nonetheless, with the help of an older mentor with more star power, he must confront the forces of evil. Said forces are closely associated with a single woman whose presumptuousness, it is implied, has ope...

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As a Pentecostal kid coming of age in the 2000s, I carried two deep, underlying fears: one, that my secret “sins” would be publicly called out at church by someone giving out prophetic words; and two, that I was not actually “saved” and would therefore fail to be raptured. The rapture is an end-tim...