...the pursuit of “designer babies,” even though many who seek this kind of intervention do so in order to avoid life-threatening diseases. In Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness: The...
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by Jessica Polebaum
Geert Wilders in the UK
and said that there was no evidence that a previous visit to the UK by Wilders had caused problems. Wilders is without question a rabble-rouser—he has provocatively referred to the...
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by The Editors
Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa
changing South African society. Publisher University of California Press explains: Wild Religion is a wild ride through recent South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the...
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by John Lardas Modern
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part I)
...same forces. In “The Sacred, the Secular, and the Profane: Charles Taylor and Karl Marx,” Brown takes Taylor’s reading of Marx to the genealogical mat. Taylor, argues Brown, practices a...
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by Teresa Bejan
Mere Civility—A reply
...in the development of the colony’s disestablishmentarian “free speech fundamentalism”—and on Roger Williams’s shifting views of (in)civility—than I give them credit for. And, while Arnold forgives my ill-placed irony in...
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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
Reflections on summer reading
...this summer was baseball: Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards, Josh Wilker (Seven Footer Press, 2010). Proust had his madeleine; Wilker, his baseball cards. Meditating on one...
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by Jeffrey Collins
Civility, identity, and agency
...“mere civility” is a matter of individual self-expression, exemplified by the evangelical Williams—amateur theologian, lay preacher, an orthodoxy unto himself. A civility construed in his image will concern the management...
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by Joseph Winters
All or nothing: An unfree style
...begin a response to the question (which is at once mundane and metaphysical) is to break it down into its components: This, All, Is, There Is. As Georg Wilhelm Friedrich...
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by Mary Anne Case, Eric Fassin, Siobhán Garrigan, Jimmy Casas Klausen, Mary-Jane Rubenstein and Emilie Townes
Homosexuality and the Anglican debate
...We can see the same strange logic at work in Rowan Williams’s recent statement, which asserts that the Communion will not accept gay bishops or same-sex blessings because there is...