Job the Nazi Warrior – By Scott C. Jones
Scott C. Jones’s introduction, edited text, and translation of Kurt Eggers’s Das Spiel von Job dem Deutschen. Ein Mysterium. Texts Kurt Eggers’s Das Spiel von Job
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Essays
On Life Without Heroes or Epiphanies, or: How I Came to Love Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” – By Andrew J. Beck
Andrew J. Beck on Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” I’ve read enough of Nick Hornby’s Songbook, the McSweeny’s spinoffs, and similar kinds of pieces
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Straight Edge Religion: Hardcore Punk and the Sober Revolution – By David M. Krueger
David M. Krueger on Punk Rock and Religion Growing up in rural Minnesota during the 1980s, I was somewhat insulated from the lesser-known
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From Ammoun to Sisoes: A Path through the Evergetinos – By Michael Centore
Michael Centore reads a medieval compendium from the monastic Fathers of the ancient Christian East Humankind is starved for silence. Quick to define, describe, and
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Was Heidegger a Semitic Nomad? – By Michael Inwood
Michael Inwood on Projection and Heidegger’s Black Notebooks Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is a controversial figure. He is widely revered, especially in France but now
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The Multi-Ethnic France That is Under Attack – By Ethan Katz
Ethan Katz on what the Paris attacks mean for France The horrific attacks of this January in Paris — first on the satirists at Charlie Hebdo
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“Hands Up!”: Mountaintops and the Dawn of White Limitation – By Christopher M. Driscoll
Christopher M. Driscoll on America’s Dawn Wall The hard truth is that neither Negro nor white has yet done enough to expect the
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Before Malala – By Benjamin Siegel
Benjamin Siegel on Malala Yousafzai and Muslim South Asia’s rich tradition of women social reformers On December 10, clad in a flowing scarlet
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Toward Cultural Care: Acceptance Speech for the 2014 American Academy of Religion Award in Religion and the Arts – By Makoto Fujimura
Makoto Fujimura, San Diego, November 23, 2014 This speech is a prayer: a prayer uttered in the liminal zone between art and religion, a
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And now for something completely different: Brianology Comes of Age; or, What Have the Pythons Done for Us? – By Sarah Prime
Sarah Prime on the Life of Brian Conference at King’s College, London Monty Python’s controversial film comedy Life of Brian (1979) turned 35
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