McMansions, Megachurches, and Meaning
Deborah Justice on Justin Wilford’s Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings
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Religion
The Canon(s) of the Jewish Scriptures
Edmon L. Gallagher on Timothy H. Lim’s The Formation of the Jewish Canon We don’t know where the Bible came from. It took shape over
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Place, Community, Kindness — and the Occasional Rage – By Thom Satterlee
Thom Satterlee on Wendell Berry’s This Day: New & Collected Sabbath Poems In the mid-1960s, after completing a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from
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The Activist of Andalusia: Ibn Hazm of Cordoba – By Paul L. Heck
Paul L. Heck on Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of A Controversial Thinker Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and
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How Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy Helped to Invent the South – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Bryan Giemza’s Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South In “Parker’s Back,” the titular character decides to get
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Superman is a Glatt Goy
Eddy Portnoy on Harry Brod’s Superman is Jewish? How Comic Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and the Jewish-American Way Efn a zeml
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How did America’s Political Rhetoric Become so Biblical? – By Robert E. Brown
Robert E. Brown on James Byrd’s Sacred Scripture, Sacred War and Eran Shalev’s American Zion Martin Luther King, Jr. was the last great orator
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How Sufism and Jewish Mysticism Influenced Medieval Castilian Christianity – By Barbara Mujica
Barbara Mujica on Cynthia Robinson’s Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile An extraordinary sum of Passion-related texts and images produced in late medieval Europe
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The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John – By Wendy E.S. North
Wendy E.S. North on eds. Jan G. van der Watt & Ruben Zimmermann’s Rethinking the Ethics of John We search the Gospel of John in
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Variants in the Bart Ehrman Textual Tradition – By Yii-Jan Lin
Yii-Jan Lin on Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes’s The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research Described by its own practitioners as
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