How the landmark repatriation of an ancient Ethiopic codex challenges our methods of worship, the histories we tell, and the erasures of empire....

The “literal meaning” of a sacred text does not exist separate from rabbinic opinion....

A convincing argument that the ghosts of slavery haunt the white evangelical church....

Nile Green reviews Afshin Marashi's "Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran."...

Adam McDuffie reviews "Solemn Reverence: The Separation of Church and State in American Life" by Randall Balmer....

Two new books explore the richness and strangeness of life among Orthodox Jews....

A poet discusses his new translation of the gospels into vernacular American speech....

Sarah Iles Johnston considers "How God Becomes Real," the recently published book by T. M. Luhrmann....

Vona Groarke finds little comfort and much inspiration in one of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Terrible Sonnets.”...

What can France’s history with Catholicism tell us about today’s culture wars over Islam?...

Peggy Ellsberg praises the clarity, reverence, and affection of “The Catholic Writer Today” and “Studying with Miss Bishop” by Dana Gioia....

Simon Franklin praises “The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus” by Sean Griffin....

On Mark C. Taylor’s “Seeing Silence,” recently released by University of Chicago Press....

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....

Do Puritans get a bad rap? Ed Simon reviews Michael P. Winship's "Hot Protestants."...

Travis LaCouter considers "The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience," the new book by Simeon Zahl....

Nile Green reviews "Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935" by Leor Halevi....