Ora
Jerusalem, 1971: An artist’s passions and compulsions show that the light is, indeed, near the darkness. By Henry Greenspan
Category: Spring 2008
Living under the Fallen Sky
What talk of God, what theology, is possible if you love science, if you count on it, if you study in the world of basic medical research? By Laurie Zoloth
Women Only?
Shades of intention and effect in Harvard’s gym-hours controversy. By Andrea Useem
The Tip of an Ideological Iceberg
Demographic Winter: The Decline of the Human Family. By Kathryn Joyce
Three Poems by Katie Ford
“Seawater, and Ours a Bed above It,” “Snakes,” and “Flag” by Katie Ford
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
Arthur O. Lovejoy’s The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. By Christopher Queen
Credo
Reverence is a kind of awe, and awe is a kind of humility. In that way, reverence is the great corrective to a tendency of belief to warp, to contract, and to harden. By Marilynne Robinson
Christianity’s New Guises in China
Christianity takes on new guises in China. By Sunny Lee
With Agassiz, Darwin, and God in a Collection’s Inner Sanctum
The collection that is now all but hidden from the public was once offered as the surest proof of the existence of God. By Peter Bebergal
To Speak About God
Biblical language is often a quick, light, and delicate language, which cannot bear the superstructures that have been built upon it. By Krister Stendahl
Rooted in Humanity, Extended to Heaven
Many of the best new ideas emerge from consideration of the questions others have posed long ago, living in diverse landscapes fraught with tension, disagreement, and uncertainty. By Tu Weiming
Wild Turkeys of the Northeast
Poetry by Andrew McCarron
Fertility Factors
Reconsidering halakhah in a range of fertility issues. By Ronit Irshai
One Irish Poet’s Way: A Portfolio
Accompanying four of his poems, an interview with the poet John F. Deane. By Wendy McDowell
Renovating a Jewish-Muslim Bridge
Muslims offer a letter of reconciliation to Jews. By Edward Kessler
Dancing Together in Uncertainty
We live in vibrant possibility as virtual nomads. We carry with us a vocabulary rich in lingual diversity; yet it is in our temporal existence where limitations are revealed, especially in moral dialectics. By Brin Stevens
Four Poems by John F. Deane
“Words of the Unknown Soldier,” “Footfalls,” “Eye of the Hare,” and “Still Life” by John F. Deane
A Hollow Agnosticism
Bart D. Ehrman’s God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer. By Chris Hedges
