Jessica Xiao
Posts by Jessica Xiao (page 6)
Iranian Cinema: Defiance and Creativity in the Face of Authoritarianism
Journalist and Middle Eastern cultural expert Diana Darke once wrote, “In Iran, they say there are two books in every household—the Koran and Hafez.... Read More
Click Me! Black Coffee, Psychopaths, and Twin Peaks
On October 12, Jezebel ran a story with the headline: “Study Says People Who Take Coffee Black Have Psychopathic Tendencies.” Reporting on the same... Read More
Let’s JAM: Believers and Nonbelievers Find Common Ground
“Common ground” is a term that gets used a lot and certainly has positive connotations. Of course, what underlies the attempt to find common... Read More
Lefties Left behind in Oklahoma
Last Tuesday, NBC affiliate KFOR reported that a pre-K teacher at Oakes Elementary School in Okemah, Oklahoma, forced four-year-old student Zayde Sands to write... Read More
Book Review: Being Called: Scientific, Secular, and Sacred Perspectives
Being Called is an academic collection of essays that attempts to define and explain the experience of a “calling” from scientific, secular, and sacred... Read More
Sitcom Gets Biblical: The Jim Gaffigan Show’s Case of Mistaken Identity
The Jim Gaffigan Show stars the eponymous comic, actor, voice-over artist, and author in a fictionalized version of his life as a comedian living... Read More
Asylum without God: The Refugee Crisis in Europe
How do we begin to understand the crisis in Europe? Perhaps we should start with understanding the climate problems and political persecution in Syria... Read More