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TIMOTHY LARSEN | For the Bible to speak to our world it has to be set in it, acknowledging the reality of the worst evils that befall us...

Technological and scientific progress often have a fraught relationship with religion. . .

DEREK PENSLAR | For a professional historian, no life, no matter how absorbing and consequential, is removed from context. . .

VIKA PECHERSKY | Dostoyevsky belonged to a rare group of thinkers who never submitted themselves to the crude power of the facts of life. .

NOËL VALIS | Memory and death. The solid and the spectral. The murdered Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca . . .

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI |The way to cure bulmos, asserts the Talmud, is to feed the sufferer whatever they demand—even forbidden food

AMIT MAJMUDAR | So anyone can approach the Gita without feeling their particular religious background or faith affiliation is under attack.

YESHUA G.B. TOLLE | As I turned the pages of those frail, tattered, overlooked books, I found traces of a familiar desire.

SOPHUS HELLE | For the past four years, two tracks have run through my life. One is Gilgamesh

BENJAMIN SCHREIER | Resentful and tacit hostility persists as an enduring, though not particularly productive, academic affect.

AQSA IJAZ | Bridges, of all kinds, have traditionally represented our desire to know and connect with what’s on the other side.

N.A. MANSOUR | We do not allow our characters rest...