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Jun 2, 2021
Inventing A Jewish Feminist Theocracy
BY SHAYNA WEISS | In Alexander Kaye’s masterful The Invention of Jewish Theocracy, we learn that Rabbi Isaac Herzog was especially concerned


May 20, 2021
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy
BY ALEXANDER KAYE | In many quarters today, there appears to be a symbiotic relationship between demagogues peddling ethnic or racial


Jan 15, 2021
Why George MacDonald Matters
TIMOTHY LARSEN | Once upon a time, when young princesses were still plentiful, there nevertheless was a scarcity of children’s literature...


Dec 18, 2020
Medieval Wisdom for Mental Health in COVID-19
JENNA PHILLIPS | In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del Garbo...


Dec 18, 2020
The Many True Meanings of Christmas
TIMOTHY LARSEN | While the season of Christmas often brings out the best in people, somehow the subject of Christmas does not...


Dec 4, 2020
White Noise and White Silence: Evangelicals and Race
MATTHEW A. BENTON | American social unrest after George Floyd’s death (and Breonna Taylor’s, and Ahmaud Arbery’s, and Jacob Blake’s...


Nov 6, 2020
The Ramayana and The Birth of Poetry
AMIT MAJMUDAR | Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of his body, a stick he uses to hit everyone...


Jun 4, 2020
Racial Murder: American Memory, American Tragedy
SAMUEL LONCAR | We are what we remember...


Nov 15, 2019
The Unity Death Yields: Assassination Through A Theologian’s Eyes
PAUL GRIFFITHS | In a time of intractable political division in America, it’s instructive to observe what unites those on both sides of...


Oct 31, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Israel: A Plea for Consistency
GARY A. RENDSBURG | I am a strong supporter of Israel and a great admirer of its manifold accomplishments in its 71 years of independence...


Oct 17, 2019
Death at the Border: A Theologian’s Perspective on Migration
PAUL GRIFFITHS | Early in the twentieth century, Australians built a supposedly rabbit-proof fence across that continent...


Aug 29, 2019
St. Augustine’s Jews and the Undeserving Poor
AZZAN YADIN-ISRAEL | That the Republican Party has championed laws hostile to the poor is more a factual observation than political...
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