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Interpreting Miracles
MADELINE MCMAHON | The defining feature of a miracle is that it does not make sense in its context...
Aug 23, 2019


Israel and Palestine in the Age of Trump
YAIR WALLACH | In early June 2018, in an interview to the BBC in London, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed relaxed and upbeat...
Aug 23, 2019


Mexico and the 1968 Generation
ANNE FREELAND | On October 2, 1968, Mexican police fired on unarmed student protesters in...
Aug 9, 2019


Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
DAVID BENNETT | A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century...
Aug 9, 2019


Sex, Flesh, God: Towards a Theology of Carnal Life
WESLEY HILL | Christianity’s central preoccupation is with a tortured body, now radiantly transformed—the human body of Jesus...
Aug 9, 2019


After Orientalism: The Muslim Left Today
THOMAS GREENE | The photograph is iconic: a 14-year-old Palestinian boy stands on a dirt road facing an Israeli tank...
May 24, 2019


Is All Forgiven? Democracy and Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda
J.J. CARNEY | In 2018, my family enjoyed a lovely Christmas in Rwanda...
May 10, 2019


The Many Tales of Joseph Oppenheimer
JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | Yair Mintzker’s new book on crime, sensation, religious-ethnic difference, power, and perspective could not be more...
Apr 26, 2019


Religion and National Loyalty
LARRY W. HURTADO | In its first two centuries, early Christianity effectively laid the basis for religious pluralism...
Apr 12, 2019


Cafe Culture, Judaism, and World Making
AVERY ROBINSON | Well over a century before “pumpkin spice latte” was uttered in Europe, coffeehouses were in the vanguard of Western...
Mar 29, 2019


Antisemitism, Adorno, and the Theory of Hate
JAMES LOEFFLER | After last October’s synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, American society responded in predictable fashion: Politicians and..
Mar 1, 2019


Pagan Arabs, Arabian Prophecy, and Monotheism
AZIZ AL-AZMEH | Current scholarship on Paleo-Islam was strongly marked by the publication in 1977 of...
Mar 1, 2019
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