Silence Won’t Protect You
Kelly J. Baker on academic freedom and the neoliberal academy Almost 39 years ago, Audre Lorde gave a talk on silence, language, and
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First Impressions #74: John Shelby Spong On Biblical Literalism as a “Gentile Heresy”
A close reading of Matthew’s gospel reveals that a literal understanding of Jesus’s story obscures its deep Jewish roots. John Shelby Spong joins
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Impolite Conversation #9: Paul Hanson’s Book and Antonin Scalia’s Death
In episode 9, Tim Hill and Dan Clanton talk to the eminent Bible scholar Paul D. Hanson about his new book, A
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A Virtuous Village, a Pure Voice: The Moralization of Semiotic Form in the Christian Pacific – Webb Keane
Webb Keane reviews Handman’s Critical Christianity and Harkness’s Songs of Seoul What does being a Christian guarantee? For many empirical observers, theology will
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Babylon’s Imperial Allure – By Phillip M. Sherman
Phillip M. Sherman on Erin Runions’s The Babylon Complex Mythology matters. The stories we tell ourselves, individually and collectively, shape our experience of
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Wall Street Goes to War: Hardhat Politics and the Culture War of Everything since the 1960s – L. Benjamin Rolsky
L. Benjamin Rolsky on Stephen Prothero’s Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When they Lose Elections) On the morning of May 8,
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Out of This World: Virtual Reality and Philosophical Talmud – By Zachary Braiterman
Zachary Braiterman on Sergey Dolgopolski’s The Open Past As a “religious” document, the Babylonian Talmud is as strange as it gets. A web
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Here, There, and Everywhere – By Amit Gvaryahu
Amit Gvaryahu on on Richard Kalmin’s Migrating Tales When ISIS recently took over the historic city of Palmyra on the Silk Road, they
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First Impressions #73: Barbara Ambros on Women in Japanese Religions
A new look at Japanese religious history through the eyes of women. Kristian Petersen talks with Barbara Ambros, Professor of Religious Studies at
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MRBlog | Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and the Death of Nuance
By Thomas J. Whitley Pope Francis made waves on his plane today when he said that Donald Trump is not Christian. Well, that’s not
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