The Twilight of the American Enlightenment – By George M. Marsden
An excerpt from George M. Marsden’s latest book [This MRB exclusive is excerpted from The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and
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Traveling to Acquire Knowledge – By Daniel Majchrowicz
Daniel Majchrowicz on Houari Touati’s Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages Travel was always desirable to them And they visited every continent
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To Speak Truly About God – By Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams on Kevin Hector’s Theology without Metaphysics When we say that something is true or adequate, what are we claiming? We might
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Ecumenical Protestantism’s Battle for Hearts and Knees – By James Hudnut-Beumler
James Hudnut-Beumler on David A. Hollinger’s After Cloven Tongues of Fire As late as 1960, more than half of all adult Americans belonged
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The Morning After – By Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope on Porochista Khakpour’s The Last Illusion I was in New York on September 11th. The sound of sirens jolted me out
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Coffee Table Talk with Christoph Markschies
[AUDIO] Coffee Table Talk at the Café Einstein Stammhaus in Berlin Christoph Markschies sits down with MRB Editor-in-Chief Timothy Michael Law for a chat about
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The Lewd, the Obscene, the Lascivious in Jewish Literature – By Stephen J. Whitfield
Stephen J. Whitfield on Josh Lambert’s Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture Have Jewish writers shown a proclivity for transgressions of good taste, for
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In Mecca’s Backyard – By Alexandre M. Roberts
Alexandre M. Roberts on Timothy Power’s The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500–1000 A long coastal plain called the Tihama
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If Not Him, then Whom? Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Death Penalty – By Anthony Santoro
Anthony Santoro on vengeance, mercy, and the death penalty one year after the Boston Marathon Bombings In July 2005, Talia Emoni Williams’s father
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Jesus vs. Judaism … Again – By Eva Mroczek
Eva Mroczek on David A. deSilva’s The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha In 1973,
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