Why Sin is Good – By Ed Simon
Ed Simon on original sin for a secular age. Save a few prayers for poor Pelagius, footnote to theological history, whose name mostly
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Essays
Why The Election Of Trump Matters for Michelle Shirley – by Nikia Smith Robert
It could have been any one of us in that car on a fall day in southern California. October 31, 2016 in Torrence
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A Requiem for Leonard Cohen – by Elliot R. Wolfson
Elliot R. Wolfson says adieu to the master of erotic despair And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And
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Religion, Conservatism, and American Public Life: 2016 – by Benjamin Rolsky
Is Trump Archie Bunker? With less than a week before the election, political pundits and academic commentators are scrambling for the latest polling
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Subtle Censorship? – by Nausikaä El-Mecky
Nausikaä El-Mecky on the censorship of art and a scandal in Slovakia It’s not so easy to get rid of controversial art these days.
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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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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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