Why Sin is Good – By Ed Simon
Ed Simon on original sin for a secular age. Save a few prayers for poor Pelagius, footnote to theological history, whose name mostly
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Bible as Scripture, Bible as Artifact
Hindy Najman on Benjamin Sommer’s Revelation and Authority From the very inception of the discipline of biblical studies, the place of Judaism and
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The Spirit of Yoruba Liberalism
Ebenezer Obadare on J.D.Y. Peel’s Christianity, Islam, and Orisa Religion For three days in June last year, some students of Baptist High School,
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Expanding the Definition of Yoga
Ellen Gough on Christopher Key Chapple’s Yoga in Jainism In November of 2015, Jennifer Scharf’s yoga class at the University of Ottawa was
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Built for Today, Living on in Tomorrow
Evan McWilliams on Gretchen Buggeln’s Suburban Church Those who grew up in the sprawling postwar suburbs of the United States typically pass by
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Beyond Borders: America, Immigration, and the Future of Information
Editor Samuel Loncar’s Vision for Freedom and Depth in the Digital Age What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A
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“Every age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage”: Art and the Sacred in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain – by Emma Mason
Emma Mason on Kathryn Barush’s Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain In a short blog, “The Story of Brexit, in the style
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Secularism in Black – by Joseph Winters
Joseph Winters on Jonathon Kahn and Vincent Lloyd’s Race and Secularism in America Secularism appears to be a fairly self-evident concept. Whether one
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Angels or Animals? Remixing Religion and Evolution with Affect Theory – by Beatrice Marovich
Beatrice Marovich on Donovan Schaefer’s Religious Affects In the 1960s and 1970s, while observing chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream Reserve, primatologist Jane Goodall
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On Islam, Liberalism, and Islam in Liberalism – by Kathleen Foody
Kathleen Foody on Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism In 1981, Edward Said asked whether “Islam [is] in the end useful as a notion,
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