Is God Necessary?
"Had I asked 'Is God necessary?' a few centuries ago, I would have probably been stoned to death or burned alive."
"Had I asked 'Is God necessary?' a few centuries ago, I would have probably been stoned to death or burned alive."
Marcelo GleiserMay 22, 2015
Some segments of the Haredi community have adopted increasingly strict interpretations of Jewish law.
Nomi Maya StolzenbergMay 17, 2015
"'Wrestling the Angel' is a comprehensive synthesis of Mormon theology."
Seth PerryApr 29, 2015
Belief is not what you think.
Iain McGilchristApr 15, 2015
Contributor Guy Stagg reviews "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence" by Karen Armstrong.
Guy StaggMar 15, 2015
"The Lost Gospel by Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson is not the worst book ever writtenBut is perhaps the worst book ever written about Jesus."...
Anthony Le DonneMar 6, 2015
"Who exactly is misquoting Muhammad? Just about everyone."
Scott C. LucasFeb 28, 2015
Macbeth is the most political of Shakespeare’s heroes because he kills his king not out of hatred, envy, or even ambition, but to gain power for its...
Faisal DevjiFeb 2, 2015
"The weighty task of wrenching terrorism and martyrdom apart and policing the divide between them takes place on a daily basis in news commentary and...
Candida MossDec 17, 2014
What makes atheism so radically different is its desire to meet the extraordinary truth claims of religion head-on with rival propositions about the...
Morten Høi JensenDec 14, 2014
Steve Jones's "The Serpent's Promise" is not just a “retelling” of the Bible, but a critique of religion and a clarion call for science to replace it...
Alistair WelchmanNov 19, 2014
Page duBois points out in her book A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism that the West tends to forget that polytheism still exists.
Jessa CrispinNov 9, 2014
David is the first person in history whose tale is complete and vital.
Robin RussinNov 8, 2014
"It is not very common that a work of philosophy that deals with beauty is itself beautifully written. David E. Cooper’s 'Sunlight on the Sea...
Peter CheyneOct 28, 2014
In Defense of Football
Timothy Michael LawOct 27, 2014
"Why did the Nazis kill the Jews? Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, the causes and meaning of the Holocaust remain as high on historians’...
David BialeSep 30, 2014
Contributor Joel Looper on Charles Marsh's "Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer"
Joel LooperSep 10, 2014
"'Yoga emerged in India as a means to transcend suffering,' begins Debra Diamond, the gifted Sackler curator of the exhibition and editor of this...
Ann Louise BardachSep 4, 2014
Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus: An Alternative History"
Jeffery D. LongSep 4, 2014
S. Brent Plate parses a collection of essays on the reemergence of religion in European cinema.
S. Brent PlateAug 7, 2014
MANY CONSERVATIVE cultural critics look back to the 1950s as America’s Golden Age, the last decade of cultural consensus before Selma, the pill...
Michael Sean WintersJul 15, 2014
ONE SUMMER DAY in the 1980s, like many a rebellious minister’s kid looking to get a laugh from irreverence, I used my Bible as a skateboard to glide...
Timothy Michael LawJul 10, 2014
WRITERS OF NONFICTION crime stories, as opposed to their counterparts in fiction, face a very specific problem: how to write about victims. In a...
Maurice ChammahJul 9, 2014
FOR SOMEONE who can write with such incisive lucidity and elegance as Barbara Ehrenreich, it must be hard not to find exactly the right way to...
A. C. GraylingJul 2, 2014