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LUKE JOHNSON | I began reading Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry in a hospital waiting room filled with fake-leather chairs that reclined too far...

BRYAN GIEMZA | If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what would we say was on her mind?...

DAVID NIRENBERG | We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate as fortunate as this...

JONATHAN P. DECTER | Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages...

DEBRA KAPLAN | In his 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew, Martin Luther provocatively wrote that had he been a Jew, he too would have refrained from converting to Catholicism...

PAULA FREDRIKSEN | There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely familiar sense of horror would pulse through me...

MARTIN MENKE | New histories of the Shoah provoke a range of responses...

NICK RIPATRAZONE | The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their unruly patron saint...

DEBORAH JUSTICE | The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings — used to anchor civic communal life...

BRADLEY M. PEPER | The late David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), arguably one of the most innovative and poignant literary voices of the last twenty-five years, was instrumental in the formation of “New Sincerity.”...

PAUL L. HECK | Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and littérateur of eleventh-century Andalusia, may not be well known, but his ideas certainly generate controversy...

NICK RIPATRAZONE | In “Parker’s Back,” the titular character decides to get a new tattoo to please his fundamentalist wife...