Climate Grief and the Secular Spirituality of Earth-Mourning
We need to approach earth-mourning as a necessary spiritual practice that reckons with the disorienting power of grief and the potential for meaningful change. By Dorothy Dean
Category: Required Reading
Prison Theology
Austin Reed’s antebellum memoir The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict subverts notions of incarceration as spiritually regenerative. By Klaus C. Yoder
Giorgio Agamben, the Church, and Me
Italian philosopher and political theorist Giorgio Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory, The Church and the Kingdom, and The Omnibus Homo Sacer, and Simon Critchley’s The Faith of the Faithless offer resources for exploring the connections between temporality, political community, and ordained ministry. By Charles M. Stang
Challenging Binaries, Crossing Boundaries
A review of four books on Islamic reform in contemporary Africa. By Ousmane Kane
What Contributes to Moral Progress?
Michael Shermer’s The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Reason and Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. By Bradley Shingleton
Border Crossings
Three books about Muslim travelers. By Emran Qureshi
Ethics and Vulnerability in Watchmen
Ethics and the many dimensions of vulnerability interweave in Watchmen. By Jonathan Schofer
A Double-Edged Dilemma
Divergent perceptions of the relations of religion, justice, and peace have stimulated a vast and still expanding literature, reflecting diverse and sometimes contentious perspectives. By David Little
The Democratic Dilemma
Religion and politics, then and now. By Todd Shy
A Complex, Brighter Horizon
New horizons for science and religion. By Philip Clayton
Cross Purposes
When it comes to salvation, there is an open, ongoing Christian discussion, full of passionate claims, intellectual experiments, and pointed debate. By Matthew M. Boulton
Rethinking Christian Claims to Universalism
Denise Kimber Buell’s Why This New Race? Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity. By Karen L. King
A Longing toward Action
JorieGraham’sOverlord. By Jeffrey Johnson
The Politics of Memory
Archaeologies of the Greek Past by Susan Alcock and Martyrdom and Memory by Elizabeth Castelli. By Laura Nasrallah
Origins of the Moral ‘Ought’
By Arthur Dyck
