...the end of his life, mourned the futility of his endless quest for theological knowledge and invoked the way of the old women (and his own mother) as the best...
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Mormon appointed to White House faith-based advisory council
by Candice Scharf...Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnership, which focuses on tasks such as advising on public policies relating to faith-based organizations and the best practices in delivering social services. Daniel Burke of...
August 8, 2012
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
A theodicy of the unliving, or, Why I won’t teach my Black Lives Matter class anymore
January 7, 2021
...teach it anymore. * * * To explain why, perhaps it is best to describe how the class is structured. I break it up into two modules. The first module...
January 7, 2021
Essays
An exceptional tradition? The Jesuits in the world
November 2, 2016
...Confederacy because of their fear of Republican radicalism. Only a handful of Jesuits supported the Union. McGreevy’s book is at its best when teasing out the complicated relationship to the...
November 2, 2016
Religion in the public sphere
Religion’s many powers
by Craig Calhoun...who should seek to understand what is said on religious grounds as best they can. But not all that religious citizens have to say is “translatable”; the residuum can be...
March 16, 2011
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Marilynne Robinson on religion, secularism, and literature
by Phillip Quintero...in the mostly secular university setting? I’m a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it’s one of the best things that we have. I don’t believe in...
May 17, 2012
Religion and the 2008 election
This is our moment, this is our time
by Robert N. Bellah...this reminded me of what I wrote in my most frequently reprinted article, “Civil Religion in America,” which was a call to see that the best of our tradition required...
January 12, 2009
Minding the Modern
Ancient questions for modern answers
by Mark Alznauer...point that we can best see both the achievements of Minding the Modern and, perhaps, its limitations. Pfau’s own understanding of humanistic inquiry emphasizes the “trans-generational, hermeneutic activity intrinsic to...
October 23, 2014
Is this all there is
Political myopia and prophetic vision
by Ruth Braunstein...potential to “refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their...
March 12, 2018
Sex, secularism, and “femonationalism”
A conversation between Sara Farris and Joan Wallach Scott
July 5, 2018
...one of the best examples of attempts at integrating Marxism and psychoanalysis. Daniel Bensaïd, one of my favorite Marxist thinkers, wrote that we need psychoanalysis to understand revolutionary theory and...
July 5, 2018