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Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

Growing Up in the Shadow of Birmingham’s Racist Violence

John Archibald on Living with the Domestic Terror of 1960s “Bombingham”

By John Archibald | March 10, 2021

Seeking Stillness by Turning to the Early Monks

Seeking Stillness by Turning to the Early Monks

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | March 8, 2021

How I Ruined <em>Goodnight Moon</em> for Karen on Goodreads

How I Ruined Goodnight Moon for Karen on Goodreads

Julia Fine on Margaret Wise Brown

By Julia Fine | February 23, 2021

Gossip, Deceit, and Heartbreak in 19th-Century New England

Gossip, Deceit, and Heartbreak in 19th-Century New England

Christine Leigh Heyrman Unpacks an Unlikely Calvinist Love Triangle

By Christine Leigh Heyrman | February 10, 2021

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

Lara Vergnaud Navigates Yamen Manai's The Ardent Swarm

By Lara Vergnaud | February 8, 2021

How a Poetry Collection Masquerading as Buddhist Scripture Nearly Duped the Literary World

How a Poetry Collection Masquerading as Buddhist Scripture Nearly Duped the Literary World

”The lioness’s roars of the ancient nuns have been muffled into sweet new-agey purring.”

By An Tran | February 3, 2021

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How Istanbul’s Literature House Bridges a Divide in Contemporary Turkey

By Jan-Peter Westad | February 3, 2021

Michael Bible on Writing the Sort of Character Who Would’ve Stormed the Capitol

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | February 3, 2021

A Return to Druidry During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

By Emergence Magazine | February 1, 2021

What Gods? On Writing Spirituality<br> in Literary Fiction

What Gods? On Writing Spirituality
in Literary Fiction

Alexander Weinstein Explains the Importance of the Sacred in Storytelling

By Alexander Weinstein | January 28, 2021

On the Uses of Compassion

On the Uses of Compassion

Douglas Penick Considers Buddhist Traditions in the Mediation of Suffering

By Douglas Penick | January 21, 2021

Catherine Lacey on the Religious Experience of Reading the Right Book at the Right Time

Catherine Lacey on the Religious Experience of Reading the Right Book at the Right Time

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | January 20, 2021

Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

Daniel Allen Cox: "Symbolism allows us to avoid thinking about the thing itself."

By Daniel Allen Cox | January 19, 2021

Living That Van Life, Before It <br>Was a Hashtag

Living That Van Life, Before It
Was a Hashtag

Amanda Mei Kim on Her Itinerant California Childhood

By Amanda Mei Kim | January 15, 2021

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains

Ed Douglas Charts the Cultural Geographies of One Great Landform

By Ed Douglas | January 7, 2021

The Spiritual Message at the Heart of ‘Peanuts’

The Spiritual Message at the Heart of ‘Peanuts’

Andrew Blauner on the Lessons That Endure

By Andrew Blauner | January 7, 2021

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