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Religion
Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA
Sahar Delijani on the Legacies of the Arab Spring
By
Sahar Delijani
| January 23, 2024
How Witches Shifted from Daily Healers to Heretics and Dangerous Women Under Christian Rule
Marion Gibson on Why Public Perceptions of Witchcraft Changed in the 15th Century
By
Marion Gibson
| January 22, 2024
Why Are We Here? On the Philosophical Possibilities of “Cosmic Purpose”
Philip Pullman, Philip Goff, and Nigel Warburton Ponder the Big Questions of Our Existence
By
Philip Pullman, Philip Goff and Nigel Warburton
| January 19, 2024
Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
“Describing the slowness of change is often confused with acceptance of the status quo. It’s really the opposite.”
By
Rebecca Solnit
| January 11, 2024
Is There Any Bond Stronger than Twinship?
History, Mythology and Literature Say No
By
Helena de Bres
| November 8, 2023
How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel
On Old Believers, Faith and the Vernacular
By
Irina Zhorov
| November 1, 2023
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Too Good To Be True: How Angels Continue to Inspire
By
Ed Simon
| October 20, 2023
The Divided Self is Every Immigrant’s Legacy
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Thrity Umrigar
| October 13, 2023
The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India
By
Douglas Ober
| October 5, 2023
On the Multifaceted Women Who Inspired Saint Augustine
From Kate Cooper's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Queens of a Fallen World
By
Kate Cooper
| October 4, 2023
Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood
"Faith gave the women around me strengths and simultaneous burdens."
By
Halle Hill
| September 21, 2023
On the "Inverted Cosmos"—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages
William Egginton on Crystalline Spheres and Dante's
Divine Comedy
By
William Egginton
| August 30, 2023
How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought
Christopher Cameron on the Complex Relationship Between Black Americans and the Black Church
By
Christopher Cameron
| July 27, 2023
What John Milton’s Heaven Has to Offer the Soul—According to Ken Jennings
The Former
Jeopardy
Champion Has Some Thoughts on Literary After Death Destinations
By
Ken Jennings
| July 20, 2023
Luma Mufleh on Reconciling Her Identity as a Gay Muslim Woman With an Arab-Turned-American Refugee
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on
Keen On
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Keen On
| June 29, 2023
Literature in the Bardo: Tenzin Dickie on the Past, Present, and Future of the Tibetan Essay
“The essay—as act of truth—changes not just the writer but also the reader.”
By
Tenzin Dickie
| June 26, 2023
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