I have been trying to understand why I found this statue so arresting—so full of pathos. I think it was…
Jesus in the bardo
Catholicism
Death Be Not Proud—A reply
What I suggest in my book is that Donne’s sermon, like many other discussions of attention and distraction in early…
Attention and distraction, prayer and poetry
What is holy attention? Does its holiness have to do with the manner with which one attends, the object of…
The Protestant Reformation and human rights
When we think of the Christian origins of human rights, we might keep this in mind: What we regard as…
“Keep your money, I got my own”
There is something profoundly counterintuitive about a vision of the world reveling in cash and also raising political consciousness. But…
Holy attention as art
Importantly, Marno reminds us not to confuse holy attention with religious experience, experience in the sense of suddenly experiencing something…
Alfred Stepan’s legacy
Instead of separation of state and religion, Al drew on the history of established religions in Europe to advocate the…
Secular, sacred, Yiddish, Jewish
In considering immanentism, it is difficult not to imagine it in religious terms. This is all the more so when…
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: An introduction
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution traces the origins of the European human rights system from the Hague peace conferences before…
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany: An introduction
Why has public criticism of the German churches for their conduct during the Nazi era been disproportionately directed at the…