The Unity Death Yields: Assassination Through A Theologian’s Eyes
Paul Griffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective In a time of intractable political division in America, it’s instructive
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Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Israel: A Plea for Consistency
Gary A. Rendsburg on Israel I am a strong supporter of Israel and a great admirer of its manifold accomplishments in its 71
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Death at the Border: A Theologian’s Perspective on Migration
Paul Giffiths’ Monthly Column on Politics and Society from a Christian Perspective This short essay, the first of an occasional series for publication
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Jewish Identity and A Divided America
Shari Rabin on Michael Hoberman Public consciousness, popular culture, and historical scholarship have lavished attention and praise on the Lower East Side immigrant
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St. Augustine and The American Apocalypse
Alexander Earl on Erik Kenyon If there is one word that captures the situation of “the West” it is crisis. The political crisis,
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St. Augustine’s Jews and the Undeserving Poor
Azzan Yadin-Israel on the vilification of the poor That the Republican Party has championed laws hostile to the poor is more a factual
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Israel and Palestine in the Age of Trump
Yair Wallach on Seth Anziska In early June 2018, in an interview to the BBC in London, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed relaxed
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Is All Forgiven? Democracy and Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda
J.J. Carney on Timothy Longman In 2018, my family enjoyed a lovely Christmas in Rwanda. Although I had conducted research in Rwanda on
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Trump and the Specter of Christian Withdrawal
Jonathan Tran on James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology. The Trump presidency provides a kind of Rorschach test for
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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws
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