
Martha Cecilia Ovadia
Pop-Theology! We Have A Place In This Story
One of the first things that drew me to writing about religion and pop-culture was a long-held belief by Catholics I knew that the Jedi...

Martha Cecilia Ovadia
The Rise of Dolores Umbridge: The Nature of Evil in a Rowling World
I recently engaged in an fascinating Facebook exchange on Exvangelical -- an online community (and podcast) for those who have left...

Martha Cecilia Ovadia
Eve: Re-imagining the original rebel for 2017 female rage
Mujer Non-Grata: An Ongoing Series on Life in a Cult, Healing from Religious Trauma Syndrome, and Navigating Life After Religion. *Before...
Elizabeth Walker
Our Uterus is Overly Monitored
July 24, 2017, CBS News Reports that the 1 clinic that provides abortions is on the verge of closing as there are lines of people who are...

Zoe Nicholson
I Am Engaged
In October, 1982, I attended a meeting on Vajrayana Buddhism and stayed for 11 years and 11 months. As I age, the percentage of my...

Cary Klemmer
A Yogic Response to the State of Things: Commentary on Charlottesville
On Saturday August 13, 2017 Heather Heyer was murdered by a violent extremist. She was struck by a speeding vehicle driven through a...

John Erickson
A Letter to Those I’ve Lost
Dear [Insert Name Here], Something died on November 8, 2016, and I do not think I’ll ever be able to get it back. I sat there, walking...

Martha Cecilia Ovadia
I Look To The Sky
I was formed by traditions. I was formed by religious rituals. I was a part of a religious community. I no longer have traditions. I no...

John Erickson
The Religiosity of Silence
In 2013, I wrote an article about the then latest reality TV scandal featuring A&E’s Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson and his rampant...

Kate Davis
Mark Driscoll and Toxic Christian Masculinity
Mars Hill Church in Seattle has been a large-scale experiment to shape the future of the Evangelical Movement, for good or ill. In recent...