Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison – By Joshua Dubler
An excerpt from Dubler’s new book [This MRB exclusive is an excerpt from Joshua Dubler’s Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American
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Joshua Dubler talks to MRB’s Joseph Williams
“I am no longer the man I once was” [MRB editor Joseph Williams and Joshua Dubler, an assistant professor of religion at the University of
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Remembering John H. Hayes: Feb 6, 1934-July 11, 2013
“The righteous man knows the needs of his animals…” (Proverbs 12:10) A well-known Hasidic saying states that God created humanity because he loves
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Jewish Sin City: Al Capone’s Chicago Meets Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans – By Jeffrey Veidlinger
Jeffrey Veidlinger on Jarrod Tanny’s City of Rogues and Schnorrers Odessa is one of those cities that somehow never fails to stimulate the
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The Marriage of Religion and Technology: Reading Apple’s Allegorical Advertising
Brett T. Robinson explores the religious influences on Steve Jobs and how they shaped Apple Steve Jobs invited a number of lofty comparisons
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Sterilizing the Bible
Charles Halton reads Melissa Mohr’s Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing and questions modern Bible translations I remember the first time I
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LIVE: Origen and Scripture
A discussion with Peter W. Martens on his Origen and Scripture With guests and MRB editors Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, Darren Sarisky, and Mark DelCogliano.
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40 Years On: Adela Yarbro Collins talks to Michael Thate
Adela Yarbro Collins reflects on a fruitful career of New Testament study MRB editor Michael J. Thate recently spoke with Adela Yarbro Collins,
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Rescuing the Memory of a Dynamic and Visionary Figure
Kalman Weiser on Jess Olson’s Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined
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Looking to the Medieval to Understand Modern Art
Nancy Thebaut on Alexander Nagel’s Medieval Modern What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane
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