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

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

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”

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

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?

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

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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On the Multifaceted Women Who Inspired Saint Augustine

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By Kate Cooper | October 4, 2023

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

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"Faith gave the women around me strengths and simultaneous burdens."

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How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

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What John Milton’s Heaven Has to Offer the Soul—According to Ken Jennings

What John Milton’s Heaven Has to Offer the Soul—According to Ken Jennings

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By Ken Jennings | July 20, 2023

Luma Mufleh on Reconciling Her Identity as a Gay Muslim Woman With an Arab-Turned-American Refugee

Luma Mufleh on Reconciling Her Identity as a Gay Muslim Woman With an Arab-Turned-American Refugee

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Literature in the Bardo: Tenzin Dickie on the Past, Present, and Future of the Tibetan Essay

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.”

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