How Do Christians Practice Democracy?
Aaron Stauffer on Luke Bretherton Christian commitments make democratic politics spiritually significant. That’s why Luke Bretherton thinks Christians should to listen to their
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Reviews
Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part One
Pádraig Ó Tuama in Conversation with Marginalia’s Editor, Samuel Loncar In the ancient world, rigid divisions between healers, poets, and spiritual leaders did
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Diversifying Divine Providence in a Secular Age
Tyler R. Wittman on David Fergusson The strangest negotiations with fate happen on game day. What overzealous sports fan hasn’t questioned whether their
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Virgilian Afterlives: The Classics in Question
Nandini Pandey on David Quint David Quint treats books as living organisms with kinship ties across ages and tongues. Take, for example, the biological
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The Cry of Merlin: Carl Jung and the Insanity of Reason
Gregory Shaw on Peter Kingsley I. For a long time, I hesitated to review Catafalque because I knew I could not respond in
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Poetry for Grownups: The Responsible Self in Molly Spencer’s If the House
Alexandra Barylski on Molly Spencer Well-deserved winner of the Brittingham Prize selected by Carl Phillips, If the house bears the mark of all
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Climate Change in the First Age of Globalization
Abigail Agresta on Sam White In 1961 Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun,” a young artist struggles to survive in her New York
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Is Capitalism Compatible with Christianity?
Christina McRorie on Kathryn Tanner Capitalism and Christianity were not always at such odds. In his 1904 classic The Protestant Ethic and the
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St. Paul and Islam: A Contemporary Perspective
Matthew V. Novenson on Shabbir Akhtar In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that
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Secularism as A New Religion
Evan Kuehn on Todd Weir Many people take the idea as mere common sense: as societies advance, religion declines. This is the secularization
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