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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Irony in the Age of Trump
Samuel Loncar on Irony as a Lost Virtue in Need of Recovery Irony traces the curve of human existence striving to be a
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Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Israel: A Plea for Consistency
Gary A. Rendsburg on Israel I am a strong supporter of Israel and a great admirer of its manifold accomplishments in its 71
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But Is Torah True?
Rabbi Katz on Orthodoxy after Scholarship Maimonides claims that “we have to believe that the whole Torah was given to us by Moses,
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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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