Nobody Cares: The Trap of Empathizing with the Religious Right
Peter Capretto considers "The End of Empathy" by John W. Compton....
My Identity: Stealing What’s Mine
We bury the bubbling tide of rage that we know we’re entitled to feel, because we, unlike so many others, are at risk whenever we express that rage....
The Trouble with Re-Enchantment
Jason Crawford examines a new wave of literature on re-enchantment....
The One and Only: Andrew Louth on a New History of the Orthodox Church
Andrew Louth reviews John Anthony McGuckin's recently published book, "The Eastern Orthodox Church: A New History."...
God’s Little Rival: On Rémi Brague’s “The Kingdom of Man”
Aurelian Craiutu visits “The Kingdom of Man,” the recently published book by Rémi Brague and translated by Paul Seaton....
Enchanting Disenchantment
Peter Harrison reviews "Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt," a recently published book by Alec Ryrie....
The Cross and the Swastika
Who is our society’s most potent moral figure? Once it was Jesus Christ. Now it is Adolf Hitler. That shift has big consequences....
This Faith
Brandon M. Terry considers Martin Hägglund's "This Life" and its relation to the political philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr....
What Was Christendom?
Ed Simon explores "Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World," the recently published book from Tom Holland....
Connected
In its dark way, the pandemic affirms Darwin’s point about the elemental connectivity of life, for good and ill....
In Praise of Solitude
Irina Dumitrescu studies "The Art of Solitude," the recently published book by Stephen Batchelor....
There Is No Other Place: J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy
Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus trilogy is a stark allegory of dystopian modernity....
