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Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Zadie Smith leaves no cultural stone unturned
Smith's collection of essays considers the self as an improvised response to language and the world.
How Christian was Meister Eckhart?
The eccentric preacher's ideas hover between God's absolute otherness and God's self-revelation in Christ.
Marxism and the New Testament
As Roland Boer and Christina Petterson see it, the Gospels contradict the witness of Jesus about slavery and property.
Take & read: New books in Old Testament
Does biblical scholarship still matter for the life of faith?
Tracy K. Smith’s lovely, unflinching poems
Smith is acutely aware of injustice and violence—and remarkably hopeful about the possibility of reconciliation.
Tribalism is natural. It's also destroying us.
Amy Chua considers why we cling to people who look and act like us.
Take & read: New books in theology
Theology lives in the space between apocalypticism and Christian Platonism.
Why human rights and global ethics are inadequate concepts
In a globalized world, Michael Ignatieff argues, grand moral values have failed. What's left is virtue.
Take & read: New books in ethics
What does hope look like in the face of racism?
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