New CC content on pop music, religious differences, the impact of rage, and more.

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** Other religions and their pop stars
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I love it when articles that appear to have very little in common actually fit together perfectly. Two of our newest pieces illustrate this principle well: an interview with scholar John Thatamanil about his experience of spiritual truth in several different religions ([link removed]) , and an essay from Amy Julia Becker about the fact that, for better or worse, it is a religious experience attending a Taylor Swift concert ([link removed]) .

There might not be much overlap between comparative religion seminars and Swiftie bracelet exchanges, but maybe there should be! Thatamanil talks about how in his reading of the climactic dialogue between Jesus and Pontius Pilate, Jesus’ concept of truth is a love that sees beauty in the other. And for Becker, there is something transcendant at a Swift concert, something rooted in our desire for “belonging to one another across all sorts of divides.” It’s pretty cool to think that the magic of a Taylor Swift concert is connected to the same stuff that makes religion (and interreligious love) beautiful.

Plus more great new content! Scroll down for Sam Wells’s reflection on the difference between anger and rage ([link removed]) , a Kathryn Reklis column on violence and intimacy in Scorcese’s Killers of the Flower Moon ([link removed]) , and more.

Email me: What’s your favorite Taylor Swift song, and why? (Or a song by a different artist.)

Jon Mathieu
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Worshiping at the church of Taylor Swift ([link removed])

“There’s a part of me that wonders whether the church of Taylor Swift could be a waystation for my kids’ generation.”
by Amy Julia Becker
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** Searching for home in the world’s religions ([link removed])
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“Your pastor has maybe an hour-long service to shape your desires in a Christlike direction. But the market has you while you sleep. You dream capitalist dreams.”
Amy Frykholm interviews John Thatamanil
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** The emotion standing in the way of peace ([link removed])
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“There’s a liminal moment between anger and rage.”
by Samuel Wells
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** In the Lectionary for December 3 (Advent 1B) ([link removed])
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Keep awake, Jesus says, for God’s new world is coming.
by Melissa Bills

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** The wedding may be the most important scene in Killers of the Flower Moon ([link removed])
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“The clarity of plot only points to a deeper mystery of how those who enacted such bald and unprovoked violence could live in such intimate proximity with their victims.”

by Kathryn Reklis


** Madang episode 34: theologian Mitri Raheb ([link removed])
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Host Grace Ji-Sun Kim talks with Mitri Raheb about current conditions in Palestine, Christian Zionism, Biblical interpretation, and much more.
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