Orthodoxy as Orthopraxy in Late-Antique Christianity – By Iuliana Viezure
Iuliana Viezure on David Michelson’s Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug Philoxenos, the bishop of Mabbug in Syria between 485 and 519, is
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History
The Summit of Spiritual Perfection in the Messiness of Worldly Affairs – By John Moorhead
John Moorhead on George Demacopoulos’s Gregory the Great Pope Gregory the Great was one of those people who found himself pulled in very
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La Dolce Vita: Desires and Despairs of Latin American Migrants in Rome – By Hillary Kaell
Hillary Kaell on Valentina Napolitano’s Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return Arrayed in white before the crowd at St. Peter’s in Vatican City,
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Faith in Motion: Techniques and Technologies of Prayer in the Appalachians and Beyond – By Bruno Reinhardt
Bruno Reinhardt on Anderson Blanton’s Hittin’ the Prayer Bones In his 1964 classic Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan argued that increasing mediatization has transformed
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Why Isn’t the Rhetorical Real? The Case of Epiphanius of Cyprus – By Todd S. Berzon
Todd S. Berzon on Young Richard Kim’s Epiphanius of Cyprus Epiphanius of Cyprus (ca. 315–403 C.E.) has never been held in especially high
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Uyghur Histories – By James A. Millward
James Millward on Rian Thum’s The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History Though Western media and political circles still tend to treat Islam in
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Onward Christian Strangers – By Omri Elisha
Omri Elisha on Anna Strhan’s Aliens and Strangers? Nearly a generation has passed since a time when anyone would be surprised to learn
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Reparations, Not Reconciliation – By John Senior
John Senior on Jennifer Harvey’s Dear White Christians Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me, the wrenching and beautifully rendered epistolary
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Let No One Despise Your Youth – By AnneMarie Mingo
AnneMarie Mingo on Rufus Burrow Jr.’s A Child Shall Lead Them Recent social movements from DREAM Activists to the Arab Spring to Black
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What Has Practice to Do with Theology? – By Bradley Peper
Bradley Peper on J. Patout Burns Jr. and Robin M. Jensen’s Christianity in Roman Africa Traditionally, studies in early Christianity have emphasized one
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