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Five Books About Very Real Gods Causing Very Real Trouble

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M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs Is Two Movies in One — And They’re Both Kind of Great

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How Good Omens Queers the Bible

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How The Prisoner Allegorizes Patrick McGoohan’s Relationship to God

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Five Books Featuring Strange Gods

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How Do I Talk About Mrs. Davis?

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The Unforgiveable Sin, Womanhood, and C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces

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Faith, Worthiness, and God Butchery in Thor: Love and Thunder

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Power in the Blood: True Religion and Transformation in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces

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Who Belongs in Doggy Heaven? The Religious Subversion of Our Flag Means Death

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Georgiou Is a Jealous God—Feminine Power and the Jewish Divine in Star Trek: Discovery

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Monty Python

Life of Brian: The Gospel According to Monty Python

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