The Revival of Raced-Based Medicine: Eugenics, Religion, and The Black Experience
Audrey Farley on K. A. Johnson In a 2018 Vogue magazine cover story, tennis star Serena Williams shared her harrowing experiences in the
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Death at the Border: A Theologian’s Perspective on Migration
Paul Giffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective This short essay, the first of an occasional series for publication
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Jews and The Red Scare: The Mythology of Judeo-Bolshevism
Elissa Bemporad on Paul Hanebrink Well-known scholars of Soviet history have failed to understand Jewish experience under communism in the early 20th century.
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Understanding the Arab World Between Language and Culture
Lawrence Rosen on Tim Mackintosh-Smith A civil war rages outside Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s window, trapping him in his Sana’a, Yemen home. This travel writer, expatriate,
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History Is Not Enough: The Bible After Modernity
Amy Peeler on reading the Bible today Biblical Studies is changing. This is not news; the discipline has been undergoing methodological shifts
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Sexuality and Religious Authority in the Black Church
Joseph Winters on Monique Moultrie The intersection of Christianity and black female sexuality is a site of tension and complexity. On the one hand,
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From Medieval Brilliance to Modern Beauty
Natalie Jones on the Melody of Love One of the most defining characteristics of medieval mystical writing is its use and style of
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Jewish Identity and A Divided America
Shari Rabin on Michael Hoberman Public consciousness, popular culture, and historical scholarship have lavished attention and praise on the Lower East Side immigrant
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St. Augustine and The American Apocalypse
Alexander Earl on Erik Kenyon If there is one word that captures the situation of “the West” it is crisis. The political crisis,
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St. Augustine’s Jews and the Undeserving Poor
Azzan Yadin-Israel on the vilification of the poor That the Republican Party has championed laws hostile to the poor is more a factual
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