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Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Alireza Doostdar on Blessing, Punishment, and Witnessing War

By Alireza Doostdar | March 13, 2020

On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison's Catholicism

On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison's Catholicism

Nick Ripatrazone Considers the Faith of an American Icon

By Nick Ripatrazone | March 2, 2020

Censorship and Abuse in the Word of Faith Fellowship

Censorship and Abuse in the Word of Faith Fellowship

On the Darkness Within Jane Whaley's Church

By Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr | February 19, 2020

Books That Blur the Lines Between Living and Dead

Books That Blur the Lines Between Living and Dead

Jess Kidd's Favorite Ghost Stories

By Jess Kidd | February 12, 2020

Leila Aboulela: Novels About the Soul Come in Disguise

Leila Aboulela: Novels About the Soul Come in Disguise

Five Books With a Decidedly Mystical Dimension

By Leila Aboulela | February 11, 2020

Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

Alena Dillon Confronts the Stereotypes of Life in the Holy Orders

By Alena Dillon | February 10, 2020

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Where Have All the Sin-Eaters Gone? (We Could Use Some Right Now)

Where Have All the Sin-Eaters Gone? (We Could Use Some Right Now)

Thomas Lynch on Breaking Bread with the Dead, and Old Catholic Traditions

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How Religious Revivals Gave Women a Voice in Colonial America

How Religious Revivals Gave Women a Voice in Colonial America

"Proper and upright did not mean passive and docile."

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How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

On Her Final novel, Daniel Deronda

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A Festival of Destruction in One of the Oldest Cities in the World

A Festival of Destruction in One of the Oldest Cities in the World

Michael Cunningham Travels to the Southern Italian City of Matera

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Inside the Republican Party's Last-Ditch Scramble to Save Their House Majority

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Anne Nelson Looks Behind the Curtain of the 2018 Midterm Elections

By Anne Nelson | November 7, 2019

The Astro Poets: A Field Guide to Scorpios

The Astro Poets: A Field Guide to Scorpios

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How a Saint Gets Made

How a Saint Gets Made

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