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Deanna Isaacs on Culture
, Mar 25, 2013
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Silk Road Rising's "Mosque Alert" enlists the global community
A play in progess finds six characters in search of a conversation.
by Deanna Isaacs
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, Jan 24, 2013
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:
The Idolatry of God,
Å¡!,
and the Music Box Theatre
by Katie Kather and Janey Lee
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Savage Love
, Nov 7, 2012
"You give great head, but you bore me"
Annals of nonproblem problems. Plus: annals of anal embarrassment, and Dan waxes gay on world religions.
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, Aug 29, 2012
A portrait of David Foster Wallace as a midwestern author
The first full biography of the late novelist fails to bring much subtlety to how the region influenced his art
by Craig Fehrman
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, Jun 27, 2012
This week's Chicagoan: Beth Reiner, Amma devotee
"I believe that she is, yes, an incarnation of the Divine Mother."
by Anne Ford
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, Apr 25, 2012
Upon this wobbly rock I will build my church
A newly elected pontiff has second thoughts in
We Have a Pope
by Ben Sachs
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Deanna Isaacs on Culture
, Apr 11, 2012
Culture to cult?
In a contentious change, old St. Paul's goes from Wicker Park Art Center to home base for Love Holy Trinity Blessed Mission
by Deanna Isaacs
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, Jan 12, 2012
Fiction Issue 2012: "Thank God for Facebook!"
Postings from the grave
by Timothy Moore
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, Oct 31, 2011
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Does Tim Tebow deserve to be mocked?
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Michael Miner on Media
, Apr 28, 2011
Every Easter God Makes Headlines
by Michael Miner
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, Apr 14, 2011
The Atheist Mother's Tale
A new documentary tells the story of the Champaign housewife who got religion out of the public schools.
by Deanna Isaacs
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, Aug 27, 2010
"Supposed"?
Suffer the little children to get the hell out of there
by Cliff Doerksen
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, Aug 16, 2010
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The Nature of Existence
Roger Nygard's comic documentary "The Nature of Existence" screens through Saturday at Facets Cinematheque.
by Ed M. Koziarski
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, Apr 14, 2010
Mortified But Good
Completely bats, in a cave
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, Jan 11, 2010
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before. . .
There's nothing new or specifically modern about men of the cloth taking liberties with young parishioners
by Cliff Doerksen
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, Dec 18, 2009
The "Fire Department" of Theology
Was the the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 God's judgment on a wicked city?
by Cliff Doerksen
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, Aug 24, 2009
Lutherans, gays, and Gnostics
by Whet Moser
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, Aug 3, 2009
A pastor's take on David Bazan
by Whet Moser
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, Jul 30, 2009
The Passion of David Bazan
At the Cornerstone Christian rock festival, a fallen evangelical returns to sing about why he broke up with God.
by Jessica Hopper
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