Masking Huck's Lesson
A new version of Huckleberry Finn has been issued; throughout, nigger is replaced with slave. From The...
Thanks, Dennis Dutton
by Jeff Sharlet
Head over to Arts & Letters Daily and scroll down the left column to this sad item:...
Breadth of View
From the introduction to Witness, a publication of Black Mountain Institute, volume XXIII (2010), "Captured: Writing about Film...
The Big Questions: What is Life?
An excerpt from a recent article at MSNBC by Clara Moskowitz about the discovery of arsenic eating life...
What Almost Everyone Else Believes
From "Which Way Madness Lies" by Rachel Aviv in the December issue of Harper's magazine (subscription):
[Doctors] have to...
Science, Increasingly a Matter of Belief
Tom Junod, in the latest issue of Esquire writes (link below):
We are not going to live forever. We...
Multiculturalism gave us Jihad
In his review of Kenan Malik's From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath, Dan Margolis argues...
Eid Mubarak, All!
U.S. postage stamp from September 1, 2001
It is 1939 Again
From Bishop Wallace Benn's response to the press this week:
Sir, Some media reports have suggested that at Reform’s...
Democracy and Faith
From Jan-Werner Müller's article in the November/December Boston Review titled, "Making Muslim Democracies":
In the case of Christian Democracy, believers...
Debating Constantinianism
Chris Armstrong at Grateful to the Dead takes up Peter Leithart's book, Defending Constantine, and gets a...
Following Snake Signs
by Abby Ohlheiser
The Bible says: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they...
Cities and the Dead
Colin Dickey writes about cities and the dead for Lapham's Quarterly. From "Necropolis":
Throughout early Christendom, bishops consolidated power...
Kosher Enough
By Peter Bebergal
In April 2009, at the peak of the Swine Flu scare, Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman...
Call It a Comeback
Writes BibliOdyssey:
Regarded as one of the finest of all illuminated manuscripts in existence, the Ottheinrich Bible was thought to have...
Blair's Journey
The New Yorker's John Lanchester on former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's new memoir, A Journey.
On the...
Compromising On Death
From "Straight Man's Burden," an article by Revealer founder and contributing editor Jeff Sharlet in the September issue...
Senseless Gestures
"My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order,...
Have Missions Forgotten their Purpose?
From Brent McCracken's recent post at Relevant magazine about what he sees as a renewed need for old-school...
Not Your Mama's Fundamentalism
Chris Armstrong recently posted at his blog, Grateful to the Dead, a brief history of fundamentalism in America....
Anne Rice, Fallen Away
Eugene Cho at Sojourners on Anne Rice's shirk of Christianity:
Let’s be honest. It’s easy to take shots at...
Equivocating Poverty
From Peter Laarman's post at Religion Dispatches, "Taking Back 'Big Government Liberalism'":
So here is my question for religious...
Thicker Norms.
From Burt Neuborne's review of Sarah Barringer Gordon's The Spriti of the Law, today at The Forward.
When...
Economic "Stuckness"
Dan Schultz, at Religion Dispatches, on why we've got a "stuck" economy:
Now, the religious message is that it...