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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America
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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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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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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St. Augustine and The American Apocalypse
Alexander Earl on Erik Kenyon If there is one word that captures the situation of “the West” it is crisis. The political crisis,
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Tripping to Enlightenment? Science, Religion, and Psychedelics
Audrey Farley on Michael Pollan In 1855, while on an expedition of the interior of Africa, the British missionary and explorer David Livingstone
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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The Wandering You: Jewish & American Identity
Erin Faigin on Shari Rabin’s Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America It was the opinion of Edwards, that the
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Antisemitism Is Our Problem
Editor Samuel Loncar Reflects on Christianity’s Antisemitic Legacy Tree of Life Synagogue Daniel Stein Joyce Fienberg Richard Gottfried Rose Mallinger Jerry Rabinowitz brothers,
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