The Pope and The Pill
Karen Ross reviews Aline Kalbian’s Sex, Violence, and Justice In 1968 the Catholic Church addressed the issue of artificial contraception in its encyclical
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violence
Is Islamist violence any worse?
On the morning of September 16th, 1920, a horse-drawn carriage pulled up in front JP Morgan Bank on 23 Wall Street, right at
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Killable Monks and Socialist Sovereignty – By Matthew W. King
Matthew W. King on Christopher Kaplonski’s The Lama Question In December 1911, Khalkha Mongol Buddhist monks and nobility met in secret to declare
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MRBlog | #ParisIsBurning: On Recent Representations of Terror
By Sarah Rollens Whenever a devastating act of terrorism occurs in Europe or America, many scholars of religion cringe, knowing that often it
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Why Can’t We Be Friends? Karen Armstrong on Religious Violence – By Sarah Rollens
Sarah Rollens on Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood Recipe for a popular book on religion: one provocative meta-topic (violence is heavily in demand
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MRBlog | The Sense of Senselessness – By Patrick Blanchfield
Patrick Blanchfield on politicians’ cheap responses to mass shootings Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal spoke on last night’s mass shooting in a Lafayette
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How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian by John Dominic Crossan
An excerpt from John Dominic Crossan’s latest book. [Excerpted from How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian by John Dominic Crossan, published
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John Dominic Crossan talks with Joseph Kelly
Joseph Kelly talks with John Dominic Crossan about his new book How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian. Crossan is Professor
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Fear, Trembling, and Weird John Brown – By Andrew R. Murphy
Andrew R. Murphy in the Forum on Political Theology and Divine Violence The Marginalia Review of Books is partnering with Political Theology Today
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A Politics of Penitence and Repair: Addressing America’s Racial Wounds – By Keri Day
Keri Day in the Forum on Political Theology and Divine Violence The Marginalia Review of Books is partnering with Political Theology Today in
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