All the White Churches
A convincing argument that the ghosts of slavery haunt the white evangelical church....
How an Indian Religious Minority Shaped Modern Iran
Nile Green reviews Afshin Marashi's "Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran."...
The Night Watch on the Wall: On Randall Balmer’s “Solemn Reverence”
Adam McDuffie reviews "Solemn Reverence: The Separation of Church and State in American Life" by Randall Balmer....
Adventures Among the Orthodox
Two new books explore the richness and strangeness of life among Orthodox Jews....
God Is Genderqueer: A Conversation with H. L. Hix
A poet discusses his new translation of the gospels into vernacular American speech....
How Faith Happens
Sarah Iles Johnston considers "How God Becomes Real," the recently published book by T. M. Luhrmann....
“No Worst, There Is None”: On Gerard Manley Hopkins
Vona Groarke finds little comfort and much inspiration in one of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Terrible Sonnets.”...
French Secularism, Reinvented
What can France’s history with Catholicism tell us about today’s culture wars over Islam?...
Manifestations of Higher Meaning: On Dana Gioia’s “The Catholic Writer Today” and “Studying with Miss Bishop”
Peggy Ellsberg praises the clarity, reverence, and affection of “The Catholic Writer Today” and “Studying with Miss Bishop” by Dana Gioia....
Pointing Out the Elephant: On Sean Griffin’s “The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus”
Simon Franklin praises “The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus” by Sean Griffin....
Stonewalling Philosophy: Envisioning Silence in an Age of Noise
On Mark C. Taylor’s “Seeing Silence,” recently released by University of Chicago Press....
Beheaded
As a young woman, I fell in love with a man who owned a machete. He terrorized me for over a year. I have no doubt he would have killed me if I had stayed....
