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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Reviews
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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Israel and Palestine in the Age of Trump
Yair Wallach on Seth Anziska In early June 2018, in an interview to the BBC in London, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed relaxed
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Education and The Crisis of Christian Civilization
Mike St. Thomas on Alan Jacobs A dozen years ago, I spent some time tutoring a home-schooled student through his senior year of
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Interpreting Miracles
Madeline McMahon on Robert A. Orsi & Karin Vélez The defining feature of a miracle is that it does not make sense in its context.
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Sex, Flesh, God: Towards a Theology of Carnal Life
Wesley Hill on Paul Griffiths Christianity’s central preoccupation is with a tortured body, now radiantly transformed—the human body of Jesus, once crucified and
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Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd
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Mexico and the 1968 Generation
Anne Freeland on Susana Draper On October 2, 1968, Mexican police fired on unarmed student protesters in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas
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