St. Augustine’s Jews and the Undeserving Poor
Azzan Yadin-Israel on the vilification of the poor That the Republican Party has championed laws hostile to the poor is more a factual
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Reviews
Israel and Palestine in the Age of Trump
Yair Wallach on Seth Anziska In early June 2018, in an interview to the BBC in London, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed relaxed
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Education and The Crisis of Christian Civilization
Mike St. Thomas on Alan Jacobs A dozen years ago, I spent some time tutoring a home-schooled student through his senior year of
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Interpreting Miracles
Madeline McMahon on Robert A. Orsi & Karin Vélez The defining feature of a miracle is that it does not make sense in its context.
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Sex, Flesh, God: Towards a Theology of Carnal Life
Wesley Hill on Paul Griffiths Christianity’s central preoccupation is with a tortured body, now radiantly transformed—the human body of Jesus, once crucified and
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Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd
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Mexico and the 1968 Generation
Anne Freeland on Susana Draper On October 2, 1968, Mexican police fired on unarmed student protesters in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas
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Coercion and Justice in Islam
Mairaj Syed’s book provides a highly readable introduction into how a group of Muslim theologians and jurists understood coercion as a theological, ethical
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Tripping to Enlightenment? Science, Religion, and Psychedelics
Audrey Farley on Michael Pollan In 1855, while on an expedition of the interior of Africa, the British missionary and explorer David Livingstone
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After Orientalism: The Muslim Left Today
Thomas Greene reviews With Stones in Our Hands The photograph is iconic: a 14-year-old Palestinian boy stands on a dirt road facing an
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