Mother’s Tales, God’s Stories
The silent and implicit aspects of Qur’anic narratives elicit emotional responses from the reader that facilitate the reconstruction of the story world. By Zahra Moballegh
Featured
How to Teach about Antisemitism
The five W’s—Who, What, Where, When, and Why—guide this teacher’s thinking about crucial questions to consider when educating about historical and contemporary antisemitism. By Joshua Krug
On Waiting, Tending Life, and Comedy at God’s Scale
A conversation with Courtney Sender, MTS ’18, on her first novel, a braided story collection titled In Other Lifetimes: All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me. By Kevin Madigan
The Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future
Many traditional religious denominations are withering, but there can be liberation if we embrace refitting the old systems in new ways. By Sue Phillips
Dialogue
Paradise and the White Sky
Finding home with the Buddhist monastic tertöns and the Irish green martyrs. By Jordan L. Borgman
Love and the Cosmos
Rumi perceived love as nature’s animating force. By Munjed M. Murad.
‘A Culture of Preparedness’
Jewish synagogues adopt new security strategies as antisemitic threats increase. By Robert Israel
Unlike Sheep to the Slaughter
To a remarkable extent, Jews refused to let themselves slide into hopeless apathy during the Holocaust. By Melinda Mandelbaum Stein
In Review
Books
The Smoldering Superhuman
Jeffrey J. Kripal’s The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities calls for a “postcritical” study of religion that embraces more expansive anthropologies, ontologies, and epistemologies. By Charles M. Stang
Shelf Life
Dreaming of Superhumans: New Reactionary Nietzschean Fantasies
A fresh round of reactionary groups are appropriating Friedrich Nietzsche to promote virulent new strains of the “superhuman.” By Nicholas E. Low
Books
Speaking “Sex” into Living Languages
A Q&A with Mark D. Jordan on his new book, Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires. By Faye Bodley-Dangelo
Film
Thinking (and Talking) in an Emergency
In How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023), crisis and expediency justify violence at the expense of democratic processes. By Russell C. Powell
Poetry
Hymn to Skanda
By Amit Majmudar
The Judas-Tree
By Gilad Jaffe
Perspective
Places of Refuge from Hate
Scholars pay careful attention to language and how it intersects with power, a skill that is dearly needed in a “post-truth” climate. By Wendy McDowell
