Science vs. Religion and Other Modern Myths
Samuel Loncar on Peter Harrison’s The Territories of Science and Religion, and Jerry Coyne’s Faith versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible.
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Essays
Utmost Malice of Their Stars: The 350th Anniversary of Annus Apocalypses — by Ed Simon
Is 2016 an apocalyptic year? And two dire Comets, which have scourg’d the Town In their own Plague and Fire have breath’d their
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The Literary Politics of the Christian Left – by Christopher Douglas
If we want to think about the literary politics of American religion, we might imagine an informal Christian Right alliance between George W.
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In Defense of Hope – by Kelly J. Baker
Kelly J. Baker reflects on Rebecca Solnit’s refusal to let despair win. 2016 has been a hard year. Beloved celebrities, like David Bowie,
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There Is No End – by Ana Schwartz
Ana Schwartz responds to Ed Simon’s Apocalypse is the Mother of Beauty Wallace Stevens grants us that “we die for good.” He and
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The Dictionary is Holy – By James Chapin
The book lords over my living room. A shelf sags under its weight of ink and wood-pulp. Inside are pages the size of
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For All That Is Good and Holy: Reclaiming Religion for the Black and Latinx Victims of the #PulseOrlando Massacre by Elizabeth Pérez
What happened in Orlando was an act of desecration no less than terror. There has been no avoiding the stories, even for those
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Apocalypse is the Mother of Beauty – By Ed Simon
Consider, Boethius. He was a descendent of a noble Italian family, a beneficiary of a classical education, and in some ways the last
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The Death of God, Again by Ed Simon
The fullest affirmation of God comes in His denial. A young, attractive blonde woman with a fashionable pixie haircut sits anxiously in the
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Shakespeare Contra Nietzsche by Andrew Lanham
In the 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, one of his most influential afterlives has been in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, who thought
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