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Mary-Frances O’Connor Recommends Readings for the Grieving Brain

Mary-Frances O’Connor Recommends Readings for the Grieving Brain

The Psychologist and Author Shares Her Picks for
Understanding Life’s Lows

By Mary-Frances O’Connor | February 1, 2022

On the Spiritual and Historical Significance of “Divine Footprints”

On the Spiritual and Historical Significance of “Divine Footprints”

Francesca Stavrakopoulou Looks Closely at Religious Texts

By Francesca Stavrakopoulou | January 25, 2022

In Literature, Considering Love as Both Attention and Absorption

In Literature, Considering Love as Both Attention and Absorption

Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko on Iris Murdoch, Cormac McCarthy, and the Cultivation of Love

By Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko | January 4, 2022

A Case for Withdrawing the Genre of “Christian Fiction”

A Case for Withdrawing the Genre of “Christian Fiction”

Chelsea Leah on (Non-Religiously) Reading Religious Books

By Chelsea Leah | December 15, 2021

Searching for the Sacred on a<br> Planet in Crisis

Searching for the Sacred on a
Planet in Crisis

Megan Mayhew Bergman on Reconciling the Scientific and the Spiritual

By Megan Mayhew Bergman | December 9, 2021

How Do You Kill a God? On Captain Cook’s Ill-Fated Arrival in Hawaii

How Do You Kill a God? On Captain Cook’s Ill-Fated Arrival in Hawaii

Anna Della Subin Considers the Death of the British Explorer and the Perpetuation of Whiteness as Divinity

By Anna Della Subin | December 7, 2021

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How the Great Dorothy Day’s Anger Was an Expression of Her Faith

By Kaya Oakes | November 30, 2021

Finding the Language of Interiority in Saint Augustine’s Confessions

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How Christian Leaders Made the Case for the Crusades as an Act of... Love?

By Richard Firth-Godbehere | November 18, 2021

How the Greek Struggle for Liberty Became a Cause Célèbre for Romantic Writers Across Europe

How the Greek Struggle for Liberty Became a Cause Célèbre for Romantic Writers Across Europe

Mark Mazower on the Embrace of Philhellenism by Hugo, Pushkin, Stendhal, and More

By Mark Mazower | November 17, 2021

Omar Mouallem on the Unknown History of Islam Across the Americas

Omar Mouallem on the Unknown History of Islam Across the Americas

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 5, 2021

The Lives of Dangerous Books: On the Explosive Rise of Literacy in Tudor England

The Lives of Dangerous Books: On the Explosive Rise of Literacy in Tudor England

Amy Licence Looks at the History of the Printing Industry

By Amy Licence | November 4, 2021

Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

How Researching the Forbidden Shaped The Themes of My Novel

By Aimee Parkison | October 29, 2021

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

Shadow City, Invisible City: Walking Through an Ever-Changing Kabul

Taran Khan on Life in an Uncertain Afghanistan

By Taran Khan | October 21, 2021

Daniel Sokatch on the Chronicle of Israel and Palestine

Daniel Sokatch on the Chronicle of Israel and Palestine

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 13, 2021

How an iconic Canadian rock band lured angry teens to the dark arts of Ayn Rand.

How an iconic Canadian rock band lured angry teens to the dark arts of Ayn Rand.

By Jonny Diamond | October 6, 2021

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