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“Little Guy” America
How does Robert Wuthnow's "The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America" differ from other examples of the post-2016 "Reaching-Out Industry"?
Religion
"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal
Gates of Mind: Reflecting on Amy R. Bloch’s “Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise”
Historian Amy R. Bloch’s valuable “Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise” discloses a different kind of splendor, not the splendor of surface but of depth.
A Welcoming Church No More
Pastor Sam Washington on how black Christians were betrayed by evangelicals.
Thinking About Believing: On Marilynne Robinson’s “What Are We Doing Here?”
Robinson's ideas are beautiful, but are they always persuasive? Nicholas Cannariato on "What Are We Doing Here?"
Sex Ed for Christians
A pair of new books challenge conventional assumptions about sex and Christianity.
“Living in the Shadows of the Dead”: Cathy Otten’s “With Ash on Their Faces”
Cathy Otten’s new book tells the tragic story of the Yezidi women taken captive by ISIS.
Inventing the Pogrom: Assigning Meaning to the Kishinev Massacre
How the word “pogrom” became one of the surprisingly few Russian words that have ever made it into English.
The Death Drive Revisited: On Olivier Roy’s “Jihad and Death”
"Jihad and Death" is a remarkable work of analysis that is spilling over with insights and well worth engaging.
On Jealousy: A Conversation Between Ilan Stavans and Max Page
Ilan Stavans and Max Page discuss the perils and virtues of jealousy.
Must Atheists Trash Religion?
On Tim Crane's "The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View."
Holy Ambivalence
Do Christianity and liberalism have a future together in the United States? Brad East looks at two new books to find out.
Judaism Without a Temple: An Excerpt from Martin Goodman’s “A History of Judaism”
An excerpt from “A History of Judaism” by Martin Goodman, published this month by Princeton University Press.
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