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Why Can’t We Be Friends? Karen Armstrong on Religious Violence – By Sarah Rollens

November 9, 2015November 10, 2015

Sarah Rollens on Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood Recipe for a popular book on religion: one provocative meta-topic (violence is heavily in demand ... [Read More]

The Limits of Language – By Michael P. Jensen

November 9, 2015November 11, 2015

Michael P. Jensen on Rowan Williams’s The Edge of Words Talking seems so simple and so habitual, that we forget how fraught with ... [Read More]

The Theological Questions of Ecological Economics – By Kevin O’Brien

October 27, 2015October 27, 2015

Kevin O’Brien on Alistair Young’s Environment, Economy, and Christian Ethics When we argue about climate change, what are we really arguing about? A ... [Read More]

Christian Sex, Christian Ethics – By Marvin M. Ellison

October 27, 2015October 27, 2015

Marvin M. Ellison on Jung and Stephens’s Professional Sexual Ethics When it comes to sex and sexuality, Christians are often at their worst: fearful ... [Read More]

Architecture, Ascetics, and Agency – By Katherine Kasdorf

October 27, 2015October 27, 2015

Katherine Kasdorf on Tamara Sears’s Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings In a village in central India, two medieval buildings stand side by side. ... [Read More]

“But I Was the First to be Expelled for Heresy” – By Joshua Shanes

October 27, 2015October 27, 2015

Joshua Shanes on Shulem Deen’s All Who Go Do Not Return Toward the beginning of his celebrated memoir, All Who Go Do Not ... [Read More]

Piety, Peril, and the Politics of Place – By Jill DeTemple

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015

Jill DeTemple reviews Kevin O’Neill’s Secure the Soul As the recent debates in the US Congress remind us, security is an organizing principle ... [Read More]

Religious Spacemen? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and (Extra)-Terrestrial Faith – By Gavin Merrifield

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015

Gavin Merrifield on David Wilkinson’s Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is our blue planet Earth the only world inhabited by ... [Read More]

On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015

Suzanne Schneider on Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation In 1935, the British-run Government of Palestine convened a meeting between the Zionist National ... [Read More]

The Devil – Writ Large and in the Details – By Adam Kotsko

September 29, 2015September 29, 2015

Adam Kotsko on Almond’s The Devil and Korpel and de Moor’s Adam, Eve, and the Devil At first glance, these two studies of ... [Read More]

Religion

Why Can’t We Be Friends? Karen Armstrong on Religious Violence – By Sarah Rollens

The Limits of Language – By Michael P. Jensen

The Theological Questions of Ecological Economics – By Kevin O’Brien

Christian Sex, Christian Ethics – By Marvin M. Ellison

Architecture, Ascetics, and Agency – By Katherine Kasdorf

“But I Was the First to be Expelled for Heresy” – By Joshua Shanes

Piety, Peril, and the Politics of Place – By Jill DeTemple

Religious Spacemen? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and (Extra)-Terrestrial Faith – By Gavin Merrifield

On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider

The Devil – Writ Large and in the Details – By Adam Kotsko

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