Prayers amidst Parodies and Empty Praisesongs – By Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson on Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry I never lost as much but twice,
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Religion
Mary Flannery, Green and Golden – By Bryan Giemza
Bryan Giemza on Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what
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Praying Ants and Prostrating Beasts – By George Archer
George Archer on Sarra Tlili’s Animals in the Qur’an The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the
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Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis
Marco Demichelis on Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s Islam and the Fate of Others and Between Heaven and Hell While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist
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Necessary by Nature? Possibility and the Mind of God – By Robert Merrihew Adams
Robert Merrihew Adams on Brian Leftow’s God and Necessity Like their medieval scholastic predecessors, the best known Continental Rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth century (Descartes,
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Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity
Paula Fredriksen on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely
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Biology, Ethics, and the Persistence of Religion – By Phillip Sherman
Phillip Sherman on Frans De Waal’s The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Chimpanzees are prone to extreme
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Meaning and Mystery and Love – By Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson on Andre Dubus III’s Dirty Love Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins.
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Metaphor Theory and Societal Change: Exile in the Hebrew Bible – By Katie Heffelfinger
Katie Heffelfinger on Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts. Last January’s
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Capturing the Paradox of Distaste and Desire – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their
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