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Hamilton’s Religion, and Ours
This past weekend was the 210th anniversary of the death of Alexander Hamilton in a duel with…
Hebrew-ization
Shlomo Sand argues in How I Stopped Being A Jew that “he foundations on which the State of…
Jew, Christian, and the Science of Religion
In a 2001 article in History of Religious, Guy Stroumsa hightlights the role of John Spencer’s De legibus…
A Place for Joy
Joy is the keynote of the new heavens and new earth that Yahweh will create, as Isaiah…
Potted Hope
Things are not as they should be, and Judah calls for Yahweh to descend to help. Rip…
Pray, Sing, Call
James ends his epistle with instructions to believers in various conditions of need. The suffering are instructed…
The Logic of Contraceptive Rights
Dissenting opinions in the Hobby Lobby case and the editorials penned in reaction to the Wheaton injunction…
What Explains the Reaction to Hobby Lobby?
I confess I’ve been surprised at the vitriol last month’s decision in Hobby Lobby has drawn from the…
First Links — 7.11.14
Vatican Says There Will Be No “Two Popes Final” for the World Cup The Straits Times ‘Human…
End of Judeophobia
Shlomo Sand’s forthcoming How I Stopped Being A Jew is a sharp slap to the brain. He challenges many…
Christian Unity
It’s one of the most dramatic illustrations of the unsurpassability of the Christian era: During the Enlightenment,…
Genesis 10 in Early Modernity
As Guy Stroumsa describes it (A New Science), comparative religion originates from a combined political and intellectual…
The Bieber Effect
Vanessa Grigoriadis writes a lengthy profile of Justin Bieber at Vulture, analyzing along the way our “sadistic” fascination…
Dogmatic Descartes
Pierre Daniel Huet, seventeenth-century bishop of Soissons, was one of the most respected scholars of his time.…
Where Sin Leads
John distinguishes between different degrees and sorts of sins (1 John 5): There is a sin that…
