Unfit for Heaven and Earth
By Ed Simon A review of Afterlives of Saints, in which author Colin Dickey examines that borderland where saints...
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Saint George, the Monstrous Saint
An excerpt from Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith (Unbridled Books, 228 pp.) by Colin...
Cities and the Dead
Colin Dickey writes about cities and the dead for Lapham's Quarterly. From "Necropolis":
Throughout early Christendom, bishops consolidated power...
In the News: Memorials, Museums, Magic and More!
A round-up of recent religion news.
In the News: Voting, Protesting, and Distracting
A round-up of recent religion news.
In the News: Calligraphy, Coens, a Caffeinated Casket and much more!
A round-up of recent religion news.
In the News: The Crusades, Anti-Vaxxers, Chocolate Gods, and more!
A round-up of recent religion and media stories in the news.
Pet Cemetery
As earlier memorials to bears and whales suggest, capitalism doesn’t diminish our need for ritual—it heightens it.
What I'm Reading
Good reads pulled from The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Revealer and elsewhere.
Daily Links: Great Divides Edition
Back from the Great Divide! Welcome to the fall, and a host of stuff you should be reading...