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The Wall Street Journal reports that a Malaysian court has denied a newspaper of the Roman Catholic Church in…

A recent article in Christianity Today about Confucianism and Christianity in China called to mind the time several years…

Nepal’s living goddess who still has to do homework Sonia Narang, BBC News For Muslims, Howard Gordon’s…

Looks Like Kafka, Plays Like A Dream Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Republic Their Blood Cries Out…

In an essay at Slate, David Auerbach tells a story about John Harris, a game-programmer: “While working on…

Poet Kenneth Goldsmith gives a taxonomy of smartness and dumbness. There are various permutations. He prefers dumb, but…

In a 1987 review of Peter Sloterdijk’s Critique of Cynical Reason, Neil Wilson observes that for Sloterdijk “cynicism…

Peter Sloterdijk distinguishes in his Critique of Cynical Reason (139-40) between the objectifying and distancing aims of Enlightenment thought…

Isaiah 65 piles up charges of idolatry and impurity against Israel. They are supposed to offer continuous…

The Washington Post reports on a study that assesses the impact of religious affiliation on job applications. “Researchers…

Back in 1952, AHN Green-Armytage wrote this splendid description of the world of critical scholarship: “There is…

Shaka, When the Walls Fell Ian Bogost, The Atlantic Existential Woodchucks Jeffrey Sconce, Ludic Despair The Mercy…

Israel laments over her sins and their consequences (Isaiah 64:5-7). Yahweh is angry because of Israel’s persistence…

John Walton’s The Lost World of Genesis 1 promises a lot. It offers what Walton calls a “face-value”…

Adriaan Vlok was minister of law and order in South Africa during the apartheid years. As the…