By pulling at different threads of the book’s argument, Elshakry and Quadri expose a basic tension between the book’s emphasis…
On continuity and rupture: A reply to Elshakry and Quadri
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Tick-tick
What is the present if not the now of a meantime—this moment as breach? To live time in the breach…
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…
The stakes of attention
When we think of the ways of “generating an experience of full attentiveness” in devotional contexts we often tend to…
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…
Holy attention as art
Importantly, Marno reminds us not to confuse holy attention with religious experience, experience in the sense of suddenly experiencing something…
Practice and performance in ritual language
Does it make a difference to think of ritual language such as prayer in terms of a relation between practice…
Religious exemption in the National Football League
During last night's victory over the New England Patriots, Kansas City safety Husain Abdullah, a practicing Muslim who once missed…
The benefits of (studying) negative and aggressive prayer
Most people associate prayer with moral good: benevolence, forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation. Yet in some cases, people deliberately pray against…
Reverberations in the new year
A new year means new and interesting content for Reverberations, the digital forum on prayer produced in conjunction with the…