...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...
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Teaching religion: Refusing the Schempp myth of origins
...disciplines. The best work sees teaching religion and teaching about religion as deeply entangled. We serve our students best by inviting them into this struggle, not by circling the wagons....
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...
A prolegomenon to some future history
...schedule and no dedicated source of research funding. Maybe that was for the best. It meant we could work on it when we felt like it and with a tacit...
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....
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...
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...
Uranus and I are pretty good friends
...in May 1939. “When it comes to navigatin’ the heavens, I like that the best – although I’ve never owned any kind of telescope, nor even a good pair of...
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...
The shining and the shiny: An interview with Sean Dorrance Kelly
by Nathan Schneider...that motivates him to emphasize this mood of wonder. One thing seems especially important for him: that human beings can’t be acting at their best unless they’re in a situation...