...I note that practices like forgiveness and acknowledgment best take place after a war has ended or a dictatorship has fallen. This is a weak claim, though, and even it...
Best
Is critique secular?
Secular brooding, literary brooding
by Colin Jager...heteronomy/autonomy is the best scale we have for thinking about the question of critique (though I’m not sure it is), we can see immediately that a certain picture of the...
here & there
Studying Evangelicals
by Jessica Polebaum...been on The New York Times‘ best-seller list for hardcover advice books for 46 weeks and at the top of the Christian Booksellers Association best-seller list for over a year....
Essays
Love’s ladder’s God
by Patrick Lee Miller...at best, like every other love-object before his conversion. Together, then, Platonism and Augustinian Christianity describe an ascent from sensuality to divinity, from time to eternity; together they believe that...
Secularity and the liberal arts
Reconceiving the secular and the practice of the liberal arts
by Jonathon Kahn...of intellectual freedom and iconoclasm—and remain, if flawed, the best available model. Did we not recognize our campuses’ secular self-identification as a hard-won accomplishment? What had changed, some of our...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
O is for Ozarks
by John Schmalzbauer...phrase: “the best is yet to come.” Echoing Winfrey’s “Live Your Best Life,” this Pentecostal congregation is not far from the kingdom of Oprah. Likewise, Gannett-owned Ozarks Mom Like Me...
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Uranus and I are pretty good friends
off the cuff
Reflections on summer reading
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Courtney Bender, Jason C. Bivins, Tracy Fessenden, David Kyuman Kim, Pamela Klassen, Patrick Lee Miller, James K. A. Smith, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and John Torpey...best books and essays on religion, secularism, and public life that you’ve come across this summer? What are you most looking forward to reading in the near future? This page...