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Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Brook Wilensky-Lanford is author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America, coming in June 2026, both from Grove Press. Learn more about her work at www.brookwilensky-lanford.com

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Your Pseudoscience Beach Read: Creationist Infighting Edition

As Joe Laycock noted here on RD, another creation museum called the “Northwest Science Museum” recently opened in Boise. That’s right, the Northwest Science Museum. Guess it’s time to trademark the…
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Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group's "Early Shaker Spirituals"

The subject of The Wooster Group’s latest work, Early Shaker Spirituals by the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, may elicit chuckles. After all, the last time the company based shows on…
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Mad Men’s Matt Weiner, Warrior Against Woo

So we’ve always known Mad Men is not your typical view of the 1960s, but until creator Matt Weiner’s pre-mid-season-finale interview with Stephen Colbert last week, I didn’t really understand how…
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