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“If we take a step back and look at the broad historical sweep and the cross cultural sweep, what we in the modern West find ourselves...

AMIT MAJMUDAR | The Gita is so infinite because it's one of the few—or only, to my knowledge—religious texts that takes as a given the idea that human beings all have different temperaments and that different things are true to different people, and it builds from there several different pathways to the divine.

TIM O'LEARY | If we want to make progress towards perceiving Paul with historical accuracy, Mathew Novenson argues in Paul and Judaism: At the End of History, then we must try to identify the source of all this confusion...

TIMOTHY LARSEN | Potok had been invited to campus as part of an ambitious Wheaton College theater festival comprised of specially commissioned, one-act plays...

KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...

SIR PAUL NURSE | Life is something that is able to self-assemble into a whole, behaving object. And that's what a cell is, too...

AMIT MAJMUDAR | Rama has periodic fits of weeping after his separation from Sita, and when he first discovers her kidnapping, he suffers...

SAMUEL LONCAR | Carrey’s book was largely ignored by critics and philosophers. Now its storyline is the surreal landscape of the news.

PHILIP BALL | One sign of this shift is that biology is becoming more ready to accept and to speak of concepts long considered taboo...

TOBY HECHT | We are reminded that our suffering and persecution will end. We sing and our cups run over. We toast life and give gratitude..

DENNIS SCHULTING | To be is to be intelligible, to be knowable. Being itself is logos, spirit, or a self-knowing...