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Beard envy is rampant, Serena Solomon reports, and some men are taking action: “The thick, flowing beards adorning hipsters…

Klawans (Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple) is disturbed by the gap between studies of biblical purity and…

Klawans helpfully reminds us of the pre-preparations for sacrifice (Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple). To offer an…

Pope Francis’ recent address to a conference of prosperity-preaching ministers sponsored by Kenneth Copeland has many people talking.…

Seniors in Casino Land: A Report [.pdf]Amy Ziettlow, Institute for American Values Revolutions and Literal Public Squares…

When the Philistines capture the ark, they think Dagon has defeated Yahweh. Yet Yahweh is a power…

FJA Hort offered a concise summary of the argument against dating Revelation in the reign of Domitian…

Baylor University Press is hosting a reception to celebrate the release of my Gratitude: An Intellectual History. It…

“What do all these typographical high jinks signify?” asks Paul Muldoon about e. e. cummings’s poem about…

Marshall Poe notes in his TLS review that Catherine Merridale’s Red Fortress challenges the traditional statist interpretation of…

Jonathan Klawans charges (Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple) that Girard’s Violence and the Sacred is “nothing short of…

What to make of the recently scuttled FCC study of newsrooms? Gabriel Rossman argues that the FCC’s…

The Forgotten Story of the Flushing Remonstrance Wei Zhu, Immanent Frame Rich Dad, Poor Dad Eve Tushnet,…

Jesus addresses seven letters to seven “angels” of the churches (Revelation 2-3). Commentators differ on whether the…

The seven stars in Jesus’ hand are the angels of the churches, the seven lampstands are the…