- A Review of Books in History, Religion & Culture

A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws ... [Read More]

The Evangelical Search for Authenticity

April 13, 2018April 14, 2018

Jason Bruner reviews Johnnie Moore’s The Martyr’s Oath Certain strands of Christians – and not just those in America – have been inclined ... [Read More]

A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Tom Millay reviews Anthony Domestico’s Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist ... [Read More]

Heretics Among Us

April 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Jennifer Barry reviews Todd Berzon’s Classifying Christians The current political climate in the United States attests to an increasingly potent form of social ... [Read More]

Is Liberalism the Problem?

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018

Ross McCullough reviews Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed A specter is haunting conservatism — the specter, indeed, of Marx. Those conservatives too young ... [Read More]

Catholicism as Contradiction

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018

Katherine Dugan reviews The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader Pope Francis’ recent trip to South America was one of the most embroiled of ... [Read More]

The Pope and The Pill

March 30, 2018

Karen Ross reviews Aline Kalbian’s Sex, Violence, and Justice In 1968 the Catholic Church addressed the issue of artificial contraception in its encyclical ... [Read More]

Race, Difference, and Religion: Is There a Universal Humanity?

March 16, 2018

Ruth Jackson reviews Theodore Vial’s Modern Religion, Modern Race “The cry of equality pulls everyone down” — Iris Murdoch In an episode from ... [Read More]

Karma in the Public Sphere: Habermas in Ancient India

March 16, 2018

William E. B. Sherman on Christian Novetzke’s The Quotidian Revolution Let the knowledge of Brahman abound in the city of Marathi. During the ... [Read More]

The Pale Galilean: Ernest Renan, Jesus, and Modern History

March 16, 2018March 16, 2018

Will Theiss on France’s greatest historian In 1884, General Charles Gordon, the bumbling British imperialist who had earned his fame in China, was ... [Read More]