I’m with Jack
As a person with autism, the author’s son has experienced tzedakah (giving) both as beneficiary and as benefactor.
As a person with autism, the author’s son has experienced tzedakah (giving) both as beneficiary and as benefactor.
Two books on the Axial Age: Robert N. Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution and The Axial Age and Its Consequences, edited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas. By Suzanne Smith
What led to the dramatic changes in Egypt in 2013, and how should these events be characterized? By Ahmed Ragab
This story of an extended family reunited decades after a tragic separation frames the larger story of a world still struggling with the memory of the Holocaust. By Jonathan R. Herman
To focus effectively on children’s needs, community development efforts need to be tenderhearted but tough-minded. By T. Robinson Ahlstrom
Black Pentecostal women’s altar work is physical and spiritual labor that yields individual and communal rewards. By Judith Casselberry
Adrie Kusserow’s latest volume of poetry, Refuge. By Michael Jackson
Gatsby: The Cinematic Illumination of a Biblical Theology. By Daniel Ross Goodman
Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor’s The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less. By Tamara Mann
The authors address issues, events, and groups about which we often find ourselves unable to dialogue—because acts of violence or deprivation can render us speechless, slip us into denial, or drive us into opposing camps. By Wendy McDowell
The author starts from his own narrative to explore what it means to be part of a community (ummah) that engages the Qur’an as a living text. By Zain Abdullah
We tend to hold strong, opposing moral intuitions on animal rights issues, but perhaps we can agree on areas to make partial improvements. By Roger S. Gottlieb
Poetry by Frannie Lindsay
Pope Francis has already set a very different tone, but do these differences in lifestyle and message signal a significant transformation within the Roman Catholic Church? By Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
Poetry by Bijan Jalali; translated from the Persian by Hamed Kashani and Gary Gach.