...the ground. Constantly reshaping and reshaped. Immanently touched by human hands—poisoned, particulate, permeable, promiscuous. Soil is loyal to itself, to the microscopic organisms it feeds, to the infinite, infinitesimal life...
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Love in dark times
In 1962, Hannah Arendt wrote to James Baldwin, who had just published his “Letter from a Region in My Mind” in the New Yorker. Arendt began by expressing her admiration...
Interreligious organizing is messy
I first heard the term “the religious left” used by the Rev. William Sloane Coffin in 1994, and it sent my imagination soaring. Of course! The religious right had created...
Knowing our demons
by Annette Yoshiko ReedIs this all there is? Historians of religion are perhaps among those most curious about the various ways that peoples of the past answered “No.” Scholars of ancient Mediterranean religions,...
Proximate enigmas
...of questions the forum “Science and the soul” provokes us to consider. Thanks to Alireza Doostdar, Cameron Hu, Mona Oraby and Olivia Whitener for their helpful comments on previous drafts....
A riot in the social order
by J. T. RoaneOn April 8, 1946, a Bahamian farmworker named Just John wrote to the leader of the International Peace Mission Movement, Father Divine, from Miami, Florida to relay the story of...
The Cow in the Elevator: An introduction

A Cow in an Elevator? In January 2009 I found myself helping three priests lure a reluctant cow into an elevator in the city of Bangalore, India. The cow’s handler...
CFP | Converting Spaces: Re-Directing Missions Through Global Encounters
by Olivia WhitenerThe department of religious studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara, with support from the Cordano Endowment in Catholic Studies, will host an interdisciplinary conference from May 4-6, 2017, entitled...
Fortress Europe and the myth of scarcity
by Zareena Grewal“What did we come here for then?” It has been more than two years since Sultan1Subjects requested only their first names be used, an economic migrant in his twenties, was...
The Universal Enemy—A reply
In the few months since its publication—and notwithstanding the emergence of a global pandemic that has irrevocably altered imaginations of enmity and humanity—The Universal Enemy has occasioned a number of...