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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Charisma and the Place of the Prophet in Our Times – By Girish Daswani
Girish Daswani on Ruy Llera Blanes’ A Prophetic Trajectory In 2013, T.B. Joshua, the controversial Nigerian prophet and founder of the Synagogue Church
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First Impressions #65: Joseph Loconte on Tolkien, Lewis, and the Great War
The writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are best understood as responding to the cataclysm of the First World War. Dave Krueger
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First Impressions #64: Diana Butler Bass and the Emerging Spiritual Revolution
Even though church attendance is on the decline, signs of a new spiritual consciousness are springing up from the ground beneath us. Art
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A Conversation on Race, Faith and Community
Charles Halton talks with Leslie Dawn Callahan, Willie James Jennings, Christopher Doucot and Barbara Savage during the 30th anniversary celebration of the Grawemeyer
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Max Weber on Religion: Beyond Secularization – By Johannes Zachhuber
The dismissal of Weber’s worth as a theorist of historical and contemporary religion is premature. The so-called secularization thesis — the notion that
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First Impressions #50: Samuel Moyn
Special guest host Simon Rabinovitch talks with Samuel Moyn about his new book Christian Human Rights. Moyn is Professor of Law and History
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First Impressions #49: Michael J. O’Loughlin
President Obama may have more Twitter followers, but Pope Francis has the highest retweet rate of any world leader. Dave Krueger talks with
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First Impressions #43: Hillary Kaell
Kristian Petersen talks with Hillary Kaell about her new book, Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage. Dr. Kaell is a
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MRBlog | Respecting Religion: The Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Impression
Andrew B. Irvine on art and the experience of others This past April in Knoxville, Tennessee, Andrew Irvine was one of three speakers at a “Table
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