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Meister Eckhart: Dangerous Mystic
JOEL F. HARRINGTON | After nearly seven centuries of relative obscurity, the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart has emerged...
Jun 6, 2018


A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians
TOM MILLAY | In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist literary magazine that consistently reviewed...
Apr 13, 2018


The Once and Future Mainline College
PAUL W. GLEASON | By now, the demographic decline of the Protestant mainline churches is unmistakable...
Mar 16, 2018


The Pale Galilean: Ernest Renan, Jesus, and Modern History
WILL THEISS | In 1884, General Charles Gordon, the bumbling British imperialist who had earned his fame in China, was wasting away at...
Mar 16, 2018


Is Liberalism the Problem?
ROSS MCCOLLOUGH | A specter is haunting conservatism — the specter, indeed, of Marx...
Mar 3, 2018


An Act of Solidarity
MARGARET LITVIN | To an academic, any collection of “voices” from the Middle East stirs some doubts...
Dec 7, 2017


Sacrifice Revisited
AUDREY BOROWSKI | Sacrifice has endured as a permanent fixture on our horizon...
Nov 24, 2017


Performing Sacred Tragedies
RON HAFLIDSON | After he was shot and killed by police in 2014, Michael Brown’s body lay alone on a street for several hours...
Nov 10, 2017


The Trial of the Talmud
SARAH IFFT DECKER | The thirteenth century was a tumultuous time for the Jews of France...
Sep 28, 2017


Fear of a Black Planet
CIAHNAN DARRELL | When I was twenty years old, I was attacked by a group of people outside a nightclub...
Sep 28, 2017


Figuring the Unknown
CLAY GREENE | In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named Charles Percy Snow delivered a memorable lecture at the University of...
Sep 14, 2017


Marketing Religion in the Roman Empire
SARAH E. ROLLENS | At the Temple Gates takes its title from the location where numerous philosophers and religious specialists gathered...
Sep 14, 2017
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