The Canon(s) of the Jewish Scriptures
Edmon L. Gallagher on Timothy H. Lim’s The Formation of the Jewish Canon We don’t know where the Bible came from. It took shape over
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Always a Student: Remembering François Bovon
David W. Pao and David H. Warren pay tribute to their teacher, François Bovon On 1 November 2013, the world of New Testament
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I’m Sorry, Salman – By Adnan Sarwar
The night Adnan Sarwar apologized for the fatwa He’s here to talk about time spent under the fatwa, and that is what you
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Place, Community, Kindness — and the Occasional Rage – By Thom Satterlee
Thom Satterlee on Wendell Berry’s This Day: New & Collected Sabbath Poems In the mid-1960s, after completing a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from
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A Material Mind? – By William Jaworski
William Jaworski on Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False What is the mind, and
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Justifying War: A Conversation with Nigel Biggar. Part Two.
Was the invasion of Iraq moral? [This is the second and final part of “Justifying War: A Conversation with Nigel Biggar.” Catch up
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Interview with Scott Elliott
Scott Elliott talks to MRB from Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, KY Scott Elliott is Associate Professor of English at Whitman College and author
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Ann Patchett on Writing, Her Catholicism, and Her New Book
Ann Patchett talks with Charles Halton: “Writing that is clear, direct, and succinct is a great kindness to the reader.” Ann Patchett is
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Atheism 3.0? Alain de Botton’s “School of Life” and Transhumanism – By Michael Burdett
Michael Burdett on modern Atheism’s renewed interest in religion and the attraction of Transhumanism On February 23, 2012, in the Sheldonian Theatre at
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The Slaughter to Come: Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor – By Andrew Lanham
Andrew Lanham reads McCarthy’s bleak oeuvre and, finally, finds hope Physicists hypothesize something called a naked singularity, a black hole that spins so
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