Books
From Walt Whitman to Occupy Wall Street, a new anthology shows the connection between preaching and great writing—and that great journalism is older than we think.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald is editor of patrolmag.com and author of the forthcoming book Not Your Mother’s Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better. Follow him on Twitter.
A right-wing sugar daddy, two groups of evangelical filmmakers, an Oscar nod, and an Academy backlash: the strange story of a Christian movie’s 15 minutes of fame.
Religion
She went from punk rebel to Lutheran minister, and now she’s using her profane, confessional style to make mainline Protestantism cool.
Blue Screen
How the blue family sitcoms America loves made Republican values obsolete.