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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Death at the Border: A Theologian’s Perspective on Migration
Paul Giffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective This short essay, the first of an occasional series for publication
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Jews and The Red Scare: The Mythology of Judeo-Bolshevism
Elissa Bemporad on Paul Hanebrink Well-known scholars of Soviet history have failed to understand Jewish experience under communism in the early twentieth century.
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Understanding the Arab World Between Language and Culture
Lawrence Rosen on Tim Mackintosh-Smith A civil war rages outside Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s window, trapping him in his Sana’a, Yemen home. This travel writer, expatriate,
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History Is Not Enough: The Bible After Modernity
Amy Peeler on reading the Bible today Biblical Studies is changing. This is not news; the discipline has been undergoing methodological shifts
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