• Religion

    Free Speech

    PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

    Facing Widespread Criticism, PEN America Responds

     
    By Literary Hub  April 18, 2024
    The Bible

    Sacrifice and Obedience: Marilynne Robinson on the Timeless Tale of Abraham and Isaac

    By Marilynne Robinson  March 15, 2024
    Relationships

    What American Divorces Tell Us About American Marriages

    By Lyz Lenz  February 22, 2024
    Women's Stories

    UFO, or Unidentified Female Observer: Kirsten Bakis on the Undersung Life of Anna Fort

    By Kirsten Bakis  February 21, 2024
    Social Movements

    The Complicated—Yet Inspiring!—History of Spiritualism in America

    By S. E. Porter  February 16, 2024
    Arab American Literature

    No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

    By Aisha Abdel Gawad  January 29, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Resistance

    Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

    By Sahar Delijani  January 23, 2024
    Witches

    How Witches Shifted from Daily Healers to Heretics and Dangerous Women Under Christian Rule

    By Marion Gibson  January 22, 2024
    Philosophy

    Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”

    By Philip Pullman, Philip Goff and Nigel Warburton  January 19, 2024
    Christianity

    Jesus Had Needs, Too: On the Sacred Blasphemy of The Last Temptation of Christ

    Ed Simon Considers the Literary and Cinematic Representations of Christianity's Chief Paradox

    By Ed Simon  March 29, 2024
    Twins

    Is There Any Bond Stronger than Twinship?

    By Helena de Bres  November 8, 2023
    Early Russian Literature

    How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

    By Irina Zhorov  November 1, 2023
    Divine Inspiration

    Too Good To Be True: How Angels Continue to Inspire

    By Ed Simon  October 20, 2023
    Immigrant Stories

    The Divided Self is Every Immigrant’s Legacy

    Thrity Umrigar on Fitting in in America

    By Thrity Umrigar  October 13, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India

    By Douglas Ober  October 5, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    On the Multifaceted Women Who Inspired Saint Augustine

    By Kate Cooper  October 4, 2023
    Spirituality

    Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

    By Halle Hill  September 21, 2023
    Cosmology

    On the “Inverted Cosmos”—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

    William Egginton on Crystalline Spheres and Dante's Divine Comedy

    By William Egginton  August 30, 2023
    Black History

    How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

    By Christopher Cameron  July 27, 2023
    News and Culture

    What John Milton’s Heaven Has to Offer the Soul—According to Ken Jennings

    By Ken Jennings  July 20, 2023
    Keen On

    Luma Mufleh on Reconciling Her Identity as a Gay Muslim Woman With an Arab-Turned-American Refugee

    By Keen On  June 29, 2023
    Buddhism

    Literature in the Bardo: Tenzin Dickie on the Past, Present, and Future of the Tibetan Essay

    “The essay—as act of truth—changes not just the writer but also the reader.”

    By Tenzin Dickie  June 26, 2023
    Keen On

    Peter Cave on the Scholars, Dreamers, and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live

    By Keen On  June 23, 2023
    Borders

    Borders and Rivers: On Language, Faith, and Family at the US/Mexico Border

    By Alejandra Oliva  June 22, 2023
    Activism

    Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 11, 2024
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