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Joshua Shanes on Shulem Deen’s All Who Go Do Not Return Toward the beginning of his celebrated memoir, All Who Go Do Not
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First Impressions #54: Heather R. White
Dave Krueger speaks with Heather R. White, visiting professor in Religion, Queer, and Gender Studies at the University of Puget Sound. Heather is the
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. From Belarus … With Love – By David Shneer
On singing Yiddish in Belarus By David Shneer In the 1920s, passengers arriving to Minsk, the capital of the new Belorussian Soviet Socialist
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In the Footsteps of Shenoute – Caroline T. Schroeder
Caroline T. Schroeder on Bentley Layton’s The Canons of Our Fathers Every year in the month of July over ten thousand pilgrims flock
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Envisioning Divine Mystery: Scripture, Creation, and Christ in the Theology of the Ancient Syrian Poets – By Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent on Beggiani’s Early Syriac Theology Chorbishop Seely Joseph Beggiani’s second edition of Early Syriac Theology (first published in 1983) introduces
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Piety, Peril, and the Politics of Place – By Jill DeTemple
Jill DeTemple reviews Kevin O’Neill’s Secure the Soul As the recent debates in the US Congress remind us, security is an organizing principle
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Religious Spacemen? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and (Extra)-Terrestrial Faith – By Gavin Merrifield
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On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider
Suzanne Schneider on Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation In 1935, the British-run Government of Palestine convened a meeting between the Zionist National
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First Impressions #53: Alicia Turner
Kristian Petersen talks with Alicia Turner, Assistant Professor at York University, about her new book, Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma.
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Paul Theroux Ruined Travel Writing – By Charles Halton
Charles Halton on Paul Theroux’s Deep South After a lifetime exploring foreign lands, travel writer Paul Theroux took a trip to his backyard
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