Gay Rights Comes to Africa?
Rachel C. Schneider on Decolonization, Sexuality, and Africa Over the last decade, countless news stories, focusing on the difficult situation of LGBTQI people
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Christianity
Culturally Muslim in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Abigail Agresta on Olivia Remie Constable’s To Live Like a Moor What does it mean to be Muslim? To be Christian? Do these identities consist
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Trump and the Specter of Christian Withdrawal
Jonathan Tran on James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology. The Trump presidency provides a kind of Rorschach test for
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Reimagining Christian Identity in an Islamic World
Joshua Mugler Reviews Peter Schadler’s John of Damascus and Islam Over the past few years, the Christians of the Middle East and their relationship
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A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians
Tom Millay reviews Anthony Domestico’s Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist
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Saint of Science: The Religious Life of Isaac Newton
Peter Harrison reviews Rob Iliffe’s Priest of Nature The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. When Isaac Newton died on March 31, 1727, his
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Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness. Alexandra Barylski interviews Ocean Vuong
Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the Whiting
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The World the Reformation Made?
Joel F. Harrington on the modern world and the meaning of the Reformation In 1976, the novelist Kingsley Amis imagined a modern world
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Revolutionary Reading? The Bible of the Reformers
Relearning Where to Stand In the year 1600, there were only a handful of known heliocentrists. Galileo, of course, would do a great
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Separating the Two Swords
Sarah Mortimer on the Reformation and political thought The theological revolution begun by Martin Luther in 1517 not only challenged the authority of the
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