Lonesomeness Explored
Lonesomeness, if cultivated, can provide for the healing of our loneliness. By Kevin Lewis
Category: Winter/Spring 2010
Border Crossings
Three books about Muslim travelers. By Emran Qureshi
Searching for Balance
A way of life that embraces harmony requires resolve, reassessment, and an imaginative way of seeing. By Kathryn Dodgson
Young, Hip, and Muslim
Muslim youth are taking the lead in articulating a distinctively American Islam. By Jane I. Smith
Churches Embrace New Social Media
Churches should see social media tools as a way to reinvent spiritual practice altogether. By Paul Lamb
A Localist Worldview
Robert Wuthnow’s Boundless Faith. By Elizabeth Parsons
Spiritual but Not Religious
Many moderns tend to presume practicing religion risks making one less spiritual, but sophisticated writings by medieval monastics suggest that traditions, texts, and rituals provide the very means for engendering a spiritual like. By Amy Hollywood
Leaning toward Enlightenment
Shinjo Ito’s artworks are both beautiful and powerful works of art and profoundly religious images. By Margaret R. Miles
The House off Straight Street
[Not available online] Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, is teeming with microsocieties and with religious diversity. By Stephanie Saldaña
Pope Benedict, Disaffected Anglicans, and Holocaust-Denying Bishops
There is a link between the recent invitation to accommodate Anglicans into the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Benedict’s rehabilitation of schismatic bishops. By Kevin Madigan
The Dynamics of God
Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God. By Kathryn Joyce
Two Poems by Kevin Goodan
“Hoist-points for the Promised Power” and “Album” by Kevin Goodan
Inside Outside
A New Yorker from India who “hunts down” prayer rooms in airports reflects on the existential situation of travelers. By Shahnaz Habib
Cities, Climate Change, and Christianity
The Christian practice of “kenosis” (self-emptying) suggests a way of understanding and living that is urgently needed in our time of environmental and financial chaos. By Sallie McFague
Theorizing Closer to Home
The primal fault in social and religious theory can be overcome if scholars restore the people of their inquiries to their real lives and environments. By Robert A. Orsi
Balqis’s Sorrows
Poetry by Bushra Al-Bustani, translated from the Arabic by Wafaa Abdulaali
