We’ll return to our regularly-scheduled examination of the material culture of religion following this random current-events roundup:
British Couple Charged in Religious Discussion.
“Is God Dead?” Author Indisputably Dead
Archaeologists Unearth Oldest Christian Church
Prayer Declares Independence; Incorporates As Own Religion
Muslim Punk; or, Young Evangelicals Not Only Ones Being Real
Archaeologists Have Busy Day, Also Discover Really Old Depiction of Menorah
Utah-Arizona Border Towns Offer Polygamy Tours, Breathtaking Red-Rock Scenery
The Lost Symbol; or, Keeping Up With the Masons
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Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…