Thoreau’s Religious Self: A Model for Our Moment?
Rebecca Kneale Gould on Thoreau’s Religion Alda Balthrop-Lewis is not the first to focus on Thoreau with attention to Thoreau’s religion. She is,
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politics
Can Weimar Germany Help Us Now?
Evan Kuehn on Humberto Beck If you want to draw a simplistic historical analogy that emphasizes the sheer evil of a person, there
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Latinx Activists: Politics, Theology, and Church Occupation
Barbara Sostaita on Felipe Hinojosa Felipe Hinojosa’s Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio casts
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A/Synchronicity: Text and Context in Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity
Noah Salomon on SherAli Tareen I spent the first year-and-a-half of the Covid-19 pandemic in Beirut on an extended sabbatical. As a way of
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Art’s Progressive Politics: A New Public Sphere?
Donato Loia on David Joselit T he last forty years have seen a boom in academic studies. There are thousands of specialist books
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The Future of Secularism
The future of liberalism lies in secularism. What is needed for a renaissance in liberalism worldwide is a spiritual revival in secularism itself. To put this another way, the current crisis in values after the Death of God could be thought of as the birth pangs of the creation of the first genuinely secular civilization in human history.
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Religious Liberty in Law
Lael Weinberger on Winnifred Fallers Sullivan For years, the paradigmatic religious liberty case in American law was that of an individual’s conscience against
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When Secular Laws and Religious Convictions Collide
Perry Dane on religious freedom, current conflicts, and Martin Buber The recent challenges by some churches and synagogues to COVID related state restrictions
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The Art of Poetry: To Turn Our Grief to Music
Andrew Mossin on Rachel Tzvia Back “Poetry makes nothing happen.” W.H. Auden’s oft-quoted line appears in his 1940 poem, “In Memory of W.B.
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Are Evangelicals Their Own Worst Enemy?
Audrey Farley on Thomas Kidd As the coronavirus pandemic intensifies across the world, so does blame for the failed efforts to contain the
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