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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Telling the Story of Women in Japanese Religions – By Jessica Starling
Jessica Starling on Ambros’s Women in Japanese Religions This spring I was invited to give a talk at a public library in Central
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The Enemies of our Enemies: Islam in Nazi Germany – By Mehnaz M. Afridi
Mehnaz Afridi on Motadel’s Islam and Nazi Germany’s War The study of Muslims during World War II, Muslims and their role in the
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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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MRBlog | Why Rick Santorum Thinks a Muslim Ban is Constitutional and Why It Matters
By Thomas J. Whitley During the “undercard” GOP Debate Tuesday night, Rick Santorum made a comment about Islam that seems to have been
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Directions in the Study of Religion: Identity Formation
The malleability of identity formation: Kristian Petersen talks with Steven Ramey, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, about the new
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First Impressions #63: Robert Shedinger on Jesus and Jihad
“Holy war” is only one meaning of the term jihad. In mainstream Islam, jihad is understood in terms of what Christians might understand
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How to Be Human in a Machine World
Samuel Loncar on the future of humans in a world dominated by computers Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction.
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It is Time for the Analytic Philosophy of Judaism – By Samuel Lebens
Ask a professional philosopher to list three living philosophers who have contributed to Jewish philosophy. They will struggle. Jewish thought, in recent years,
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