• Religion

    Shakespeare

    Commuting with Shylock: (Reluctantly) Revisiting The Merchant of Venice with My 10-Year-Old Son

    By Dara Horn  September 8, 2021
    Identity

    To Be Pure: On Doubt, the Rules of Jewish Identity, and Questions of Familial Inheritance

    By Deborah Feldman  September 2, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Ariel Sabar Debunks the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife

    By Book Dreams  September 2, 2021
    Physics

    Theory of Everything, Theory of Nothing: On Physics and Other Profanities

    By Joshua Roebke  September 1, 2021
    Faith

    Divine Intervention: 6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities and Finding Themselves

    By Jaye Viner  August 26, 2021
    Colonialism

    We All Know Columbus Didn’t Discover America—So How Did He Become a Symbol of Its Founding?

    By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz  August 25, 2021
    Consciousness

    I Bark, Therefore I Am: Of Consciousness and Robot Dogs

    By Meghan O'Gieblyn  August 24, 2021
    Christianity

    JRR Tolkien Invented the Term “Eucatastrophe.” What Does It Mean?

    By Jonathan Walker  August 24, 2021
    Mental health

    Can a Commitment to Religion or Spirituality Help Ward Off Depression’s Debilitating Hold?

    By Lisa Miller  August 19, 2021
    Political History

    Toward a Binational Alternative in Israel: On the Illusion of the Two State Solution

    By Omri Boehm  August 19, 2021
    Book Dreams

    How to Read Any Book as a Sacred Text

    By Book Dreams  August 19, 2021
    Terrorism

    The White Christian Nationalism Behind the Worst Terrorist Attack in American History

    By Spencer Ackerman  August 10, 2021
    Utopias

    Finding the Fault Lines Beneath Auroville’s Utopian Dreams

    By Akash Kapur  July 26, 2021
    Philosophy

    The Earth and the Flesh: On Channeling the Serenity of the Tao to Endure a Tibetan Expedition

    By Sylvain Tesson  July 16, 2021
    Indigenous Peoples

    How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

    By Emil’ Keme  July 12, 2021
    Jewish Literature

    What Makes Jewish Literature “Jewish”?

    By Ilan Stavans  July 9, 2021
    Religion

    How Writing a Novel About the Evangelical Church Helped Me Grieve the Loss of My Religion

    By Kelsey McKinney  June 23, 2021
    Islam

    The Consequences of Speaking Out Against Religious Illiberalism in Malaysia

    By Mustafa Akyol  June 22, 2021
    Catholicism

    My Years of Living Dangerously: On Late-Stage Catholicism, Lying, and Communion

    By Danielle Henderson  June 18, 2021
    Keen On

    How Ancient Mythologies Still Culminate in Anti-Islam Policies

    By Keen On  June 9, 2021
    Keen On

    Paula Stone Williams on the Evangelical Attack on Transgender Rights

    By Keen On  June 8, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Peter Osnos on Becoming a War Correspondent in Vietnam

    By The Literary Life  June 4, 2021
    Pop Culture

    How Mean Girls Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

    By Grace Perry  June 2, 2021
    Religion

    When Will the Church Have Its Racial Reckoning?

    By Monica West  May 28, 2021
    Religion

    Imagining Heaven: On the Idea of Religious Quest and Prayer

    By Catherine Wolff  May 28, 2021
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