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Everything You Own in a Box to the Left: Reclaiming the Potential of the Sacred in Music – By Lieke Wijnia

June 9, 2015June 9, 2015

Lieke Wijnia on Christopher Partridge’s The Lyre of Orpheus In the song Irreplacable (2006), Beyoncé puts her lover’s possessions in a box and ... [Read More]

Learning to Read the Victorian Church – By David Frazer Lewis

May 12, 2015May 12, 2015

David Frazer Lewis on Michael Hall’s George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America What do Victorian churches mean? ... [Read More]

A Broken Resurrection: Faith and the Future in Toni Morrison’s New Novel – By Andrew Lanham

April 14, 2015April 14, 2015

Andrew Lanham on Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child Like fantastic prisms made of words, Toni Morrison’s novels each refract a singular history ... [Read More]

Midcentury British Catholic Church Architecture: Form, Function, and Context – By Victoria M. Young

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015

Victoria M. Young on Robert Proctor’s Building the Modern Church In the decades after World War II, communities worldwide returned to worship as ... [Read More]

Milton Friedman Drove Out Leviticus – By Charles Halton

January 6, 2015January 7, 2015

Charles Halton on Andro Linklater’s Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership Karl Marx summarized his assessment of the newly declared Commonwealth ... [Read More]

Anglican Gothic in the British Empire – By Zirwat Chowdhury

December 9, 2014December 10, 2014

Zirwat Chowdhury on G.A. Bremner’s Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870 Following a visit to Stirling Castle, ... [Read More]

A Conversation with Sayed Kashua

November 25, 2014November 25, 2014

Margaret Litvin and Simon Rabinovitch with Sayed Kashua In Emile Habibi’s satirical novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (1974), the Arab ... [Read More]

The Mexican Plaza and the Transformation of Culture – By Jose Bernardi

July 8, 2014July 14, 2014

Jose Bernardi on Logan Wagner, Hal Box, and Susan Kline Morehead’s Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space Architecture ... [Read More]

The Problem of Paradise – By David Gobel

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014

David Gobel on Annette Giesecke and Namoi Jacobs (eds.), Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden Mighty Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon and gardener par excellence, ... [Read More]

McMansions, Megachurches, and Meaning

November 18, 2013November 19, 2013

Deborah Justice on Justin Wilford’s Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings ... [Read More]

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