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Nick Street

Nick Street is the senior writer at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. His writing on religion, science, sexuality, media and culture has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, LA Weekly, the Jewish Journal, Search, Global Post, Patheos and the Revealer.

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Religion Dispatches
People make a lot of assumptions about prisoners’ faith that just aren’t accurate.
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Religion Dispatches
California mostly defied the rightward national trend in this week’s midterm elections. The victory of Proposition 47, for example, makes California the first state in the nation to “de-felonize” drug…
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Religion Dispatches
If bloodthirsty undead zombie action isn’t usually your thing, you might be temped to pass on Stake Land. But like Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Let the Right One In, the brilliant reworking of vampire tropes by Swedish novelist-screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist, Stake Land upends many of the expectations moviegoers are likely to bring to a genre film. It also makes grimly imaginative and occasionally audacious use of some of the religious and political themes threading through contemporary American culture.
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