The Limits of Language – By Michael P. Jensen
Michael P. Jensen on Rowan Williams’s The Edge of Words Talking seems so simple and so habitual, that we forget how fraught with
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The Theological Questions of Ecological Economics – By Kevin O’Brien
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
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Christian Sex, Christian Ethics – By Marvin M. Ellison
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
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Architecture, Ascetics, and Agency – By Katherine Kasdorf
Katherine Kasdorf on Tamara Sears’s Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings In a village in central India, two medieval buildings stand side by side.
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“But I Was the First to be Expelled for Heresy” – By Joshua Shanes
Joshua Shanes on Shulem Deen’s All Who Go Do Not Return Toward the beginning of his celebrated memoir, All Who Go Do Not
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Piety, Peril, and the Politics of Place – By Jill DeTemple
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
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Religious Spacemen? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and (Extra)-Terrestrial Faith – By Gavin Merrifield
Gavin Merrifield on David Wilkinson’s Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is our blue planet Earth the only world inhabited by
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On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider
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
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The Devil – Writ Large and in the Details – By Adam Kotsko
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
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Nightmares and Dreams – By Andrew Lanham
Andrew Lanham on Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights There’s a lot of talk about religion in Salman Rushdie’s new
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