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Why, and How, We Form Beliefs: A Reading List

Why, and How, We Form Beliefs: A Reading List

Sarah Krasnostein’s Journey Through Religion and Philosophy

By Sarah Krasnostein | March 14, 2022

Experiencing Kenosis in the Poetry of Donne and Shakespeare

Experiencing Kenosis in the Poetry of Donne and Shakespeare

Jason Gots on Awe and Connection in the Church of Art

By Jason Gots | March 1, 2022

Akash Kapur on Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

Akash Kapur on Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 28, 2022

A History of Demonology is a History of the World

A History of Demonology is a History of the World

Ed Simon Offers a Demonic Poetics

By Ed Simon | February 23, 2022

Revisiting Thich Nhat Hanh’s Call to Fall in Love with the Earth

Revisiting Thich Nhat Hanh’s Call to Fall in Love with the Earth

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | February 22, 2022

Nomi Stolzenberg on How a Group of American Hasidic Jews Established Its Own Local Government

Nomi Stolzenberg on How a Group of American Hasidic Jews Established Its Own Local Government

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 18, 2022

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This great wave of American book-banning is not slowing down.

By Jonny Diamond | February 1, 2022

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

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

On the Spiritual and Historical Significance of “Divine Footprints”

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

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

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

Kaya Oakes on the Life and Times of the Legendary Activist

By Kaya Oakes | November 30, 2021

Finding the Language of Interiority in Saint Augustine’s <em>Confessions</em>

Finding the Language of Interiority in Saint Augustine’s Confessions

Roosevelt Montás on Reading—and Teaching—the Story of a Journey to Conversion

By Roosevelt Montás | November 19, 2021

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

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

Richard Firth-Godbehere on Saint Augustine's Exception to "Thou Shalt Not Kill"

By Richard Firth-Godbehere | November 18, 2021

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