Here, There, and Everywhere – By Amit Gvaryahu
Amit Gvaryahu on on Richard Kalmin’s Migrating Tales When ISIS recently took over the historic city of Palmyra on the Silk Road, they
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Religion
Scripture in the Age of Non-mechanical Reproduction – By Mira Balberg
Mira Balberg on Robert Gregg’s Shared Stories, Rival Tellings In 1996, when DreamWorks Pictures decided to produce an animated musical about the life
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Holy Ghosts – By Christopher Mayo
Christopher Mayo on Rebecca Suter’s Holy Ghosts Francis Xavier kicked off a “Christian century” when he arrived in Japan in 1549. Over the
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Killable Monks and Socialist Sovereignty – By Matthew W. King
Matthew W. King on Christopher Kaplonski’s The Lama Question In December 1911, Khalkha Mongol Buddhist monks and nobility met in secret to declare
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Is Compassion Kosher? – By Kari Weil
Kari Weil on Gross’s Question of the Animal and Religion For most Americans, animals are ubiquitous in our lives. There are the so-called
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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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How to Be Human in a Machine World
Samuel Loncar on the future of humans in a world dominated by computers Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction.
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Analytic Theology and the Doctrine of the Trinity – By Edward Brooks
Edward Brooks on Hasker’s Metaphysics & the Tri-personal God What has analytic philosophy to do with the doctrine of the Trinity? ‘As little as
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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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