Killable Monks and Socialist Sovereignty – By Matthew W. King
Matthew W. King on Christopher Kaplonski’s The Lama Question In December 1911, Khalkha Mongol Buddhist monks and nobility met in secret to declare
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Being Frum in Medieval Ashkenaz – By Julie Mell
Julie Mell on Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz Long before second-wave feminism brought egalitarian practices into Judaism, medieval women were taking
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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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A History of Violence – By Arie Dubnov
Arie Dubnov on Hillel Cohen’s Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict If Israel/Palestine is to be compared to a powder keg, Jerusalem/al-Quds, no
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Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin – Daniela Blei
On April 13, 2011, Bernd Neumann, Germany’s Minister of Culture and a member of Angela Merkel’s ruling center-right party, made an announcement. After
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First Impressions #69: Joseph Reiff on White Methodism and Civil Rights in 1960s Mississippi
In 1963, a small group of white Methodist pastors in Mississippi signed a protest statement against segregation. Although harshly criticized by their peers,
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MRBlog | Christian First, American Second: On Prioritizing (and Performing) Presidential Identities
By Thomas J. Whitley Back in September 2015 presidential candidate Ben Carson said that for a Muslim to be president “you have to
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MRB 2015 Anthology
A retrospective for 2015 Are you buried under a gargantuan mound of snow? Has Snowmagedon ’16 got you hunkered down eating food from a
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First Impressions #68: Roland Boer on the Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel
How a Marxist-inspired theory and Soviet-era Russian scholarship help us better understand the world of the Bible. Joseph Ryan Kelly talks with Roland
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Why Place Matters – By James Bielo
James Bielo on Mark Mulder’s Shades of White Flight Racial inequality plagues America. This fact is central to our national story and continues
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