How a Young Harriet Tubman Found Solace in Syncretic Religion

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Tiya Miles on the Famed Abolitionist’s Early Spiritual Education

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Finding What Works: Alex DiFrancesco on Transness and Spirituality

Finding What Works: Alex DiFrancesco on Transness and Spirituality

“I wanted something that I could claim as my own, something steeped in who I was as a person.”

By Alex DiFrancesco | June 18, 2024

“Historical Fanfiction.” The Deceptive, Dangerous Simplicity of Originalism in American Politics

“Historical Fanfiction.” The Deceptive, Dangerous Simplicity of Originalism in American Politics

Madiba K. Dennie on the Antiquated Conservatism Underpinning the United States’ Highest Courts of Law

By Madiba K. Dennie | June 13, 2024

How Astrology Helped Kings and Commoners Alike Make Sense of the World

How Astrology Helped Kings and Commoners Alike Make Sense of the World

Tabitha Stanmore on the Centuries-Old Tradition of Looking to the Stars For Answers

By Tabitha Stanmore | June 4, 2024

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

By Anthony B. Pinn | May 24, 2024

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

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Facing Widespread Criticism, PEN America Responds

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

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S.E. Porter on the 19th-Century Movement and Its Righteous Yet Flawed Fight For Justice

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

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Aisha Abdel Gawad on the Danger of Talking Openly About Palestinian Pain

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

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

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

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Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

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