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June 2017

June 28, 2017

New Names for Old Gods

For modern man, a loss of the religious center resulted in all kinds of maladies.

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Tweeting my Theology

When I went to seminary, there was concern. Friends whispered. Had I gone rogue? Or...

May 04, 2017

Singing the Qur’an in Different Voices

I sat through the meeting distracted, nervous. I should have been at ease. After all,...

May 01, 2017

Passover and Government Presence

“In what ways do you experience the presence of government—city, county, state, federal—in your life,...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

When Art Disrupts Religion: An Interview with Philip Salim Francis

Just released by Oxford University Press, When Art Disrupts Religion: Aesthetic Experience and the Evangelical...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Anne Fontaine’s The Innocents

After World War II devastated eastern Europe, the Red Army pushed into the countries allotted...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Knee Walk

By Grace Talusan We stumbled onto the bus in Lisbon, sleepy after the overnight flight...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

The Cave of My Imagination

By Jason K. Friedman Ma’arat Ha-machpelah, the alliterative name sounded as magical to me as...

April 11, 2016

A Strange Season for Inter-Christian Families

American culture, at this late and plural hour, seems to have pretty well normalized the...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 1

By Danielle Leshaw Father Bill offered a set of instructions. “Walk beside me, never on...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Wilberforce: An Interview with H.S. Cross, Part 2

By Gregory Wolfe and H. S. Cross Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. GW: Religion and...

January 18, 2016

Poetry as a Weapon of Jihad

“Strap on a suicide vest? Join a global mission whose leaders preach hatred and acts...

December 2015

December 14, 2015

The Greater Evil: Proscription or Compulsion?

There’s a new law in China, and it’s aimed at weakening a faith. As the...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Wanted: God—Dead or Alive?

If you practice a religion faithfully—faith-fully—, why do you do this? And why is it...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

Girl Meets God in the Classroom, Part 1

I had used Lauren Winner’s Girl Meets God once before in class, an honors freshman...