Telling the Story of Women in Japanese Religions – By Jessica Starling
Jessica Starling on Ambros’s Women in Japanese Religions This spring I was invited to give a talk at a public library in Central
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Intermarriage and the Complexity of Jewish Identity – By Sarah Imhoff
Sarah Imhoff on Jennifer A. Thompson’s Jewish on Their Own Terms & Keren R. McGinity’s Marrying Out What is intermarriage? The answer seems obvious: marriage
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The Enemies of our Enemies: Islam in Nazi Germany – By Mehnaz M. Afridi
Mehnaz Afridi on Motadel’s Islam and Nazi Germany’s War The study of Muslims during World War II, Muslims and their role in the
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Redeeming Jimmy Carter – By Andrew R. Murphy
Andrew R. Murphy on Randall Balmer’s Redeemer Just in case readers might miss the significance of the title emblazoned across the book’s front
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New Light from an Old Source: Cyril and Scripture – By Michael Cameron
Michael Cameron on Matthew Crawford’s Cyril of Alexandria’s Trinitarian Theology of Scripture It might be hard for outside observers to tell, but for
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Why Can’t We Be Friends? Karen Armstrong on Religious Violence – By Sarah Rollens
Sarah Rollens on Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood Recipe for a popular book on religion: one provocative meta-topic (violence is heavily in demand
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Marriage, Metaphors, and Melodramas – By Darryl W. Stephens
Darryl W. Stephens on Leslie Harris’s State of the Marital Union It is easy to get tripped up by the tropes of our
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Architecture, Ascetics, and Agency – By Katherine Kasdorf
Katherine Kasdorf on Tamara Sears’s Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings In a village in central India, two medieval buildings stand side by side.
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The Importance of Premillennialism – By Dan Hummel
Dan Hummel on Matthew Sutton’s American Apocalypse In 1970, an ex-tugboat captain and self-described prophecy expert named Hal Lindsey published The Late Great
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God’s Recovery – By Gregory W. Lee
Gregory W. Lee on Khaled Anatolios’ Retrieving Nicaea Debates regarding the doctrine of the Trinity are often presented as a classic example of
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