religion

Leah Sottile on Amy Carlson, aka Mother God, and the Creation of a New Age Cult

The Author of “Blazing Eye Sees All” Shares a Cautionary Tale of Online Indoctrination

 
By Leah Sottile  March 26, 2025
Irish History

From Philly to Derry: On the Americans Who Armed the IRA During The Troubles

By Ali Watkins  March 11, 2025
Soccer

Liverpool Never Forgets: On the Legacy of the Hillsborough Disaster

By Oliver Smith  March 10, 2025
Gaza

Mohammed El-Kurd on the Complexities of Victimhood, Resilience, and Portraying Palestinian Genocide

By Hanna Phifer  February 11, 2025
literary criticism

The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

By Jane Zwart  January 15, 2025
Fascism

How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

By Ed Simon  December 13, 2024
Religion

Gospel of the Many Selves: Jessie Van Eerden on Searching for Home and Herself

By Jessie Van Eerden  November 20, 2024
On Translation

How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

By Josephine Quinn  September 4, 2024
Aliens?

Aliens, or Angels? On the Similarities Between UFO Encounters and Religious Experiences

By Luis Elizondo  August 20, 2024
The Hub

So long, #SmutWeek. Time to celebrate pious fiction with #NunDay.

By Brittany Allen  July 8, 2024
Harlem Renaissance

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

By Anthony B. Pinn  May 24, 2024
Witches

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

By Marion Gibson  January 22, 2024
literary criticism

Puzzlement Over Answers: On Fiction as a Mode of Inquiry

By Mary Lane Potter  January 19, 2024
Writers in Conversation

Andy Borowitz and A. J. Jacobs on Living in the Age of Ignorance

By Literary Hub  September 14, 2023
Keen On

Grant Lindsley on What He Learned in His Stumbling Search for Wisdom in a Thai Forest Monastery

By Keen On  April 17, 2023
On Poetry

Poets Jennifer Michael Hecht and Matthew Zapruder on Wonder, the Secular Sacred, and the Surprising Power of “Once Upon a Time”

By Matthew Zapruder  April 5, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

Divine Poetry: Katherine Rundell Shines a Light on John Donne

By Malcolm Borthwick  March 29, 2023
literary criticism

Why the Bible is the Literary Book of Books

By David Keenan  March 27, 2023
Black History

The Battle for the Black Soul: On the Poetic Embodiment of the Black Preacher

By Gregory Pardlo  February 21, 2023
Religion

Toni Morrison’s Powerful Vision of a Revival as a Ceremony for Healing Black Bodies

By Caleb Smith  February 1, 2023
Theology

That Which Calls Us: On Writing About God’s Word

By Z.L. Nickels  January 12, 2023
Keen On

Why American Religious Nationalism is on the Rise in 2022—and How to Confront It in 2023

By Keen On  December 21, 2022
On Poetry

The Other World, and This One: On Transcendence and Immanence in the Work of Victoria Chang and Yusef Komunyakaa

By Philip Metres  October 13, 2022
Religion

Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan on What Drives Religious Searching

By Literary Hub  September 20, 2022
Feedback

When Your Books Finds an Audience You Didn’t Expect

By Courtney E. Martin  August 31, 2022
Keen On

What the Sikh Religion Can Teach Us About Disrupting Bias, Building Empathy, and Seeking Wisdom

By Keen On  July 29, 2022
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