Reviews
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.
Center of Gravity
By Ann Neumann While Bergoglio's selection may have excited Argentina's 31 million Catholics, it's fair to say that it hasn't shifted the Vatican's center of gravity very much at all.
Intersections: Plate Interviews Kelly J. Baker
S. Brent Plate continues his Intersections series with an interview about the KKK with Kelly J. Baker.
Intersections: Interview with Rachel Wagner
By S. Brent Plate An audio interview with fellow Rachel Wagner about how she got from Blake to digital media and why.
Love, Magic and Holy Death
David Metcalfe talks to R. Andrew Chestnut about his latest, Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, The Skeleton Saint; with an excerpt from the book.
Famous Drownings in Literary History
An excerpt from a new book by Kevin Haworth, Famous Drownings in Literary History: Essays on 21st Century Jewishness.
Divine Intervention: American Faith in Foreign Policy
Gale Kenny reviews Andrew Preston's new book, "Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy," a narrative history of foreign policy and piety in America.
Unfit for Heaven and Earth
By Ed Simon A review of Afterlives of Saints, in which author Colin Dickey examines that borderland where saints and sinners alone exist, oftentimes within the same person.
Man Without a Country: “The Myth of the Muslim Tide”
by Nora Connor His sociology is methodical, clear and convincing, but he’s bringing a slide-rule and a pocket protector to a gunfight.
Religion-Secular, Tangled Divisions
What does it mean to pursue, inhabit, or lead a valuable, ethical life in a secular age? Are we living in a post-secular world? A review of two new essay collections.
