Plants, Minerals, Philosophers, and Bacteria: What I Was Thinking
Mary-Jane Rubenstein’s Response to the Marginalia Forum on Pantheologies I doubled over with laughter when I read Karmen MacKendrick’s confession that the words
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A Forum on Elad Lapidot’s Jews Out of the Question
Jews Out of the Question: A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism A Forum Contributors Philosophy, Justice, and Judaism, Gil Anidjar Columbia University Anti-Anti-Semitism: A Return
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Art’s Progressive Politics: A New Public Sphere?
Donato Loia on David Joselit T he last forty years have seen a boom in academic studies. There are thousands of specialist books
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Ireland: Sacred Spaces and The Pursuit of New Gods
Crawford Gribben on Ireland’s Ancient Religious Traditions O ne-night last week, I raised the blind and looked out of my bedroom window towards
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The Future of Secularism
The future of liberalism lies in secularism. What is needed for a renaissance in liberalism worldwide is a spiritual revival in secularism itself. To put this another way, the current crisis in values after the Death of God could be thought of as the birth pangs of the creation of the first genuinely secular civilization in human history.
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Scientific Certainty and Religious Mystery
It is not difficult to see why natural disaster phenomena find religious signification. From the primeval deluge in Genesis to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, religious meaning is often attributed to the calamitous effects of natural disasters which unsettle the status quo.
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Quantum Information Theory: Part 2 of Philip Ball on Beyond Weird
The writer Philip Ball is former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author of over 25 books on science, history,
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Small Resurrections: Makoto Fujimura’s Call to Create
Alexandra Barylski on Makoto Fujimura Making begins in love. Where there is love, there is abundance. Even in suffering. And Makoto Fujimura understands
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Religious Freedom: An American Ideal
Tisa Wenger on Jack Rakove W hat comes to mind when you hear the words “religious freedom?” Who and what, in practice, has
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Why Joseph Smith Matters
John G. Turner on Mormonism J oseph Smith may not be a name that matters to you, but he matters a great deal
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