Today, as political arrogance, partisan polarization, and information tribalism threaten to engulf our public life, it is crucial that we recover the political skills, spaces, and practices that encourage greater humility.
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Book introductions
Sovereign Jews: An introduction
January 29, 2018
My recent book, Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism, harnesses the powerful critique of the dominant secular(ist) epistemology, which is familiar to readers of The Immanent Frame, to re-problematize the very notion…
January 29, 2018
American religion, humility, and democracy
On organizing, feelings, and the body
January 24, 2018
I miss the curiosity we once held for each other in our churches, neighborhoods, and organizations. That curiosity needs to be broadened more than we have ever practiced it before. We must…
January 24, 2018
American religion, humility, and democracy
Passion and virtue in public life
January 17, 2018
When does religious commitment shape believers toward the balance of confidence and intellectual humility required for vigorous engagement in democratic public life?
January 17, 2018
American religion, humility, and democracy
The other evangelicals
January 11, 2018
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork across the country, I witnessed evangelicals engage diverse racial, economic, religious, political, and moral-cultural others in a spirit of flexibility, openness, collaboration, and self-critical reflection and adjustment.
January 11, 2018
American religion, humility, and democracy
A crisis of political arrogance
January 11, 2018
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public life, and in particular how they balance their responsibilities as members of…
January 11, 2018
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