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Zizek’s more violent apocalypticism avoids these difficulties of the milder but less coherent apocalyptic of Alain Badiou. …

Timothy Snyder reports that gay marriage got implicated in the Ukrainian uprising and the Russian response. Putin’s appeal to…

Oedipus was the ideal hero for classical Athens, a solver of riddles intent on discovering secrets. And…

Like cicadas, they’ve been cocooned for years, molting and breeding under the earth: In our backyards, next to our…

Dale, you’ve identified some critically important issues regarding Charles Taylor’s narrative of secularization and modernity. I would…

“Fasching—Mardi gras—is certainly not a Church festival. Yet, on the other hand, it is unthinkable apart from…

Many have been hoping that the Church under Pope Francis will allow divorced and remarried Catholics to…

As we absorb the news of Pope Francis’s  latest escapade—he accidentally cursed in front of an adoring…

Although published in 2007, Charles Taylor’s tome A Secular Age continues to generate debate. Last year David Brooks…

The most important recent development in American religion is the rise of the “Nones,” the increasing number of…

It’s very cool, very punk-rock, folk-rock, and all the other rockin’ signifiers of hip radicalism, to be…

Against Mastery Wilfred M. McClay, Hedgehog Review Heaven, Hell, and Christ on Ice Allan Carlson, Touchstone The…

Israel is prohibited from uncovering nakedness of anyone who is “flesh of your flesh” (Leviticus 18:6).  A…

Micah ends with promises of deliverance from sin. “I” bear Yahweh’s indignation because of my sin, but…

In the process of doing some research on George Herbert, I stumbled across a passage from Stanley…