Arts & Culture
A rabbi’s poetic wrestling with faith after the Shoah
In Yehiel Poupko’s poems, Jewish belief in God groans under the burden of divine silence.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the monster of Whiteness
Unmasking and slaying our Promethean desire for mastery
Robert Pattinson gives us the Batman we need
He carries the hesitant masculinity of Twilight’s Edward Cullen in his body.
The mirror world under the sea
Millions of unknown species in our oceans inhabit a universe of storytelling and dreaming.
A path back together through reading contemplative classics
My students and I are finding our way into the world again with Evagrius, Teresa of Ávila, and Howard Thurman.
Common threads among five prophetic voices of the 20th century
“We turn to Thurman, Bonhoeffer, Day, Heschel, and Niebuhr because they never let us forget the important questions.”