The Creativity of Life: A Conversation with Naomi Moris, Director of the Moris Lab at The Francis Crick Institute
Philip Ball in Conversation with Naomi Moris
Nov 23
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Mary Magdalene and Jesus: Gnostic Union or Deferred Desire?
MARGARET D. KAMITSUKA | Mary Magdalene was tarred with a misogynous and anti-sexuality brush from the start...
Sep 28
Living Systems are Not Like Machines: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate, Paul Nurse, Part Two
SIR PAUL NURSE | Human beings like things to be ordered. That's how we are. But maybe cells and living things are more sloppy. Perhaps the cell has to be sloppy to avoid, as I said, getting stuck...
Jul 27
The Enlightenment's Apocalypse: Harvard, Antisemitism, and the Future of Science
SAMUEL LONCAR | Supersessionism thus fights its enemy not with swords, destined to become ploughshares, but with time itself. The very nature of history is against the Jews, because they have not adapted to the new time inaugurated by Christianity...
Jul 27
History as A Science: The Difference of Method
STEVE MASON | If historians were to sit at the table with scientists, then history needed to be more scientific (wissenschaftlich). But how?
Nov 23
The Cosmic Mobility of Our Divine Mothers: Binah and the Shekhinah
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Perhaps the only needed modification is to go in both directions, near and far at once, with gentle caution, a controlled and attentive tumble into the stars. Cosmic mobility: that is exactly what the two-mother idea has to offer, and it is needed.
Nov 22
Meanings of Science
Some New World of Wonders: Levitation, Rationality, and Naturalism with Carlos Eire and Peter Harrison
Naturalism is not intrinsic to a rational scientific understanding. Now, why we think that, then, is partly because we've constructed false narratives about conflicts between science and religion,
May 4
Conversations on the Plurality of World-views: A Response to Peter Harrison’s Some New World
PHILIP BALL | Conflicts can in fact be tremendously fertile, alerting us to areas where more work is needed . . .
Feb 9
Cultural Diversity and Scientific Truth: In Conversation with Philip Ball
PETER HARRISON | Unfortunately, the comforting narratives beloved by scientists fall well short of the standards of historical scholarship.
Feb 9
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A Forum on Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire is a master class in how to open a dense intellectual archive. . .
Nov 22, 2024
Reviews
Ritual Practice and Cosmic Order in Hasidism
Leore Sachs- Shmueli | Mayse book resonates with contemporary concerns regarding embodied piety and subjective experience that are relevent to all people seeking a more integrated understanding of the world.
Oct 11
Mary Magdalene and Jesus: Gnostic Union or Deferred Desire?
MARGARET D. KAMITSUKA | Mary Magdalene was tarred with a misogynous and anti-sexuality brush from the start...
Sep 28
Modernity is a Predicament: On Jacob Burckhardt and the Italian Renaissance
Daniel Woolf on A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Reconsidered History is a peculiar...
Sep 28
The Invisible Fugue: The Poetry and Metaphysics of Ellen Hinsey
LUKE FISCHER | Humanity is caught within the tension of light and dark, heaven and earth, the eternal and time, divinity and mortality. In its philosophical and mystical tenor and its meditations on the relation between the timeless and time...
Sep 28
Essays
The Cosmic Mobility of Our Divine Mothers: Binah and the Shekhinah
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Perhaps the only needed modification is to go in both directions, near and far at once, with gentle caution, a controlled and attentive tumble into the stars. Cosmic mobility: that is exactly what the two-mother idea has to offer, and it is needed.
Nov 22
In the Translator's Workshop: Featuring Emily Osborne on "Oláfr Tryggvason’s Death" by Hallfreðr Óttarsson
EMILY OSBORNE | Unsurprisingly, manuscript traditions reveal that scribes were often stumped by the kennings they recorded or copied, and Hallfreðr’s seven-part kenning for Oláfr is no exception.
Nov 10
Why Tyrants Fear Speakers of Living Language
ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Language is in mortal peril, and we need to do something about it. The current trajectory of AI, left unchecked, will globalize the strongest weapon of colonialism...
Nov 10
Brian Gerrish and the Legacy of the Luther Renaissance Today: In Memoriam
Craig Hinkson In tribute to my friend and mentor, Brian Albert Gerrish, 1931-2025: To his excellence as a scholar and teacher, and kindness to me, his student Brian passed away on April 14 th during Holy Week this year at the age of 93. He and Bernard McGinn were my professors in historical theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School in the 1980s. Together, they provided the foundation for my work as an historical theologian and philosopher of religion. McGinn was
Oct 31
Interviews
The Most Influential Book on Modern Culture
Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale Divinity School
Nov 10
Christian Jewish Relations, the Second Vatican Council, and Nostra Aetate
In this episode, we share a conversation between our Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Samuel Loncar, philosopher and scholar of religion, and Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, the Kraft Family Professor and Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College.
Oct 26
Nature and Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological Perspective, Part TWO
Part Two of Marginalia's conversation with Adler begins our symposium on his new book, "The Orgins of Judaism" (Yale University Press).
Oct 26
The Nature and Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological Perspective
Part One of Marginalia's conversation with Adler begins our symposium on his new book, "The Orgins of Judaism" (Yale University Press).
Oct 12
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