David Mihalyfy


ARTICLES:


The Clean and Happy Hustle of Katy Perry's Lifetimes TourPopMatters, 2025


How Best to Explain Zizian-linked Violence?

Layers on Layers, 2025


Katy Perry's Mortality-Tinged '143' Marks Her Smartest Era Yet

PopMatters, 2025


Gower, Missouri, Sainthood Project Warrants Caution

Where Peter Is, 2024


143 is the Next Stage in Katy Perry's Ex-Evangelical Spirituality
PopMatters, 2024


Has the U.S. Begun Busting Cults like They're the Mafia?

Layers on Layers, 2023


Understanding L'Arche Abuse, Imagining Path Forward

Where Peter Is, 2023


Did Sia Hide a Race Fetish In-Joke in an Xmas Video?

Layers on Layers, 2022


How Pop Music Mainstreams Religious Weirdness

PopMatters, 2021


The Soul of a Latinist: Remembering our Teacher Fr. Reginald Foster

National Catholic Reporter, 2021


Katy Perry's Evangelical Hangover

Religion Dispatches, 2020

 
Democratic Primary News Coverage Mishandled Faith

Patheos, 2020

 

Stumbling Stones 

Contingent Magazine, 2020

 

What They Don't Want You to Know About Jesus Christ and the Seer of Poughkeepsie

Contingent Magazine, 2019

 
Psychoanalysis's Influence on Pope Francis

Sightings, 2018

 
The Religious Roots of Shaming-as-Rehab Programs

The Atlantic online, 2016

 
Gravity vs. Richard Dawkins

Sightings, 2014

 
Whatever's Possessed Nicki Minaj? One Rapper's Riff on the Demonic

Sightings, 2012

 
Errol Morris' Tabloid Sensationalizes Mormonism and 'Cult' Deprogramming

Religion Dispatches, 2011



SPIN-OFF COVERAGE:

 

Matthew Sitman

A Space Theodicy

Andrew Sullivan's The Dish, 2014