Combating Antisemitism: The Role of Myth
Gilah Kletenik on Antisemitism All of my grandparents came to this country as refugees from antisemitism. My paternal grandmother survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and my
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Most Read Pieces of 2019
When Jesus Was Jewish The late Larry W. Hurtado on Paula Fredriksen Tripping to Enlightenment? Science, Religion, and Psychedelics Audrey Farley on Michael
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Poetry for Grownups: The Responsible Self in Molly Spencer’s If the House
Alexandra Barylski on Molly Spencer Well-deserved winner of the Brittingham Prize selected by Carl Phillips, If the house bears the mark of all
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Climate Change in the First Age of Globalization
Abigail Agresta on Sam White In 1961 Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun,” a young artist struggles to survive in her New York
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My Last Day As An Adjunct
Ed Simon on Adjuncting The day was bittersweet. It was my last time that I might teach a college course. A few months
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Is Capitalism Compatible with Christianity?
Christina McRorie on Kathryn Tanner Capitalism and Christianity were not always at such odds. In his 1904 classic The Protestant Ethic and the
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St. Paul and Islam: A Contemporary Perspective
Matthew V. Novenson on Shabbir Akhtar In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that
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The Unity Death Yields: Assassination Through A Theologian’s Eyes
Paul Griffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective In a time of intractable political division in America, it’s instructive
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Secularism as A New Religion
Evan Kuehn on Todd Weir Many people take the idea as mere common sense: as societies advance, religion declines. This is the secularization
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Islam and Chinese Tradition: Negotiating Muslim Identity
Timothy Gutmann on Kristian Petersen In recent years, Muslim communities in the People’s Republic of China have entered a new state of precarity.
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