Author Archive
What Are You?
David F. Evans reviews Emily Raboteau's latest book, "Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora."
Daily Links: Today’s Soap Box
What promised land? What medical ethics? What radical Muslims? What orphans? A quick guide to righteous media this week.
“The Bible’s” Fill of Meaningful Omission
"The Bible" squashed the central achievement of biblical storytelling: meaningful omissions and lacunae, “story” as the seed of excited, growing interpretations.
Light Without Fire: The Making of America’s First Muslim College
An excerpt from Scott Korb's fantastic new book Light Without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College.
Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession
By Kathryn Joyce When devout Christian families made it their mission to save children from war-torn countries, the match was often far from heavenly.
A Portrait of Amadu Bamba, Sufi Saint
So they dispatched a man with a camera into the hinterland to catch the sage on film.
Me and My Mat
Naturalized as an integral part of practice, the mass produced yoga mat is an illustrative example of niche commoditization and the way entrepreneurs savvily build microeconomies around emergent lifestyle trends.
