Devotion in the Study of Religion
The best scholarship involves slow, painstaking, humble work to cherish the “unknowable more” in human beings and human experience, and to respond with creativity. By Stephanie Paulsell
Featured
Two-Part Invention
Our vocational lives tend to be complex, unpredictable searches for meaning on many levels, from the quotidian to the transcendent. By Nancy J. Nordenson
The Work of Art and the Art of Life
Art, religion, ritual, dance, and song are not different phenomena, but moments in an existential struggle to act vicariously upon the world—bringing it into being. By Michael Jackson
Who is Jesus Today?
Recovering the permanent Jewishness—not just of “Jesus,” but also of “Christ”—defines the essential work that Christians must do after Auschwitz. By James Carroll
Dialogue
What Faith Communities Can Teach Psychiatrists about Depression
Psychiatrists are often blind to the many ways that faith communities can contribute toward soothing the emotional suffering of the depressed. By Dan G. Blazer
Conversations with Nuns
After a year at a women’s monastery, the author reflects on Eastern Orthodox Christianity less as a religion and more as a therapeutic treatment to move closer to God. By Amelia Perkins
Unsealed Memories
Any work toward racial reconciliation and healing must start with facing up to the evils of our past. By Melissa W. Bartholomew
A Protestant Poet’s Theology of Sound
Emily Dickinson’s sense of her own “slow idolatry” helps this poet/pastor struggle with some vocational conundrums. By Nate Klug
In Review
Books
The Prophetic Vocation(s) of Julia Budenz
Reflecting on Julia Budenz’s life and life’s work, a single 2,200-page poem, The Gardens of Flora Baum. By Marion Torchia
Theater
‘Freedom Entered the Room’
For Bill Cain, Jesuit playwright, writing is his priestly calling. By Robert Israel
Books
Liberation Theology Redux?
In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, edited by Michael Griffin and Jennie Weiss Block. By Harvey Cox
Books
Paying Attention to Pain
Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams: Essays. By Sejal H. Patel
TV | Books
Girls and Sarah Coakley, Through a Theological Lens of Desire
Examining the relationship between desire and transformation in two disparate works: Girls and Sarah Coakley’s God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay “On the Trinity.” By Peter Boumgarden
Poetry
Two Poems
Outside the Monastery
The Mummies
By Anthony Opal
Two Poems
Prognosis
One
By Mary Peelen
Perspective
The Masks We Wear
In this issue, there is not a sense of “landing” on certainties, but more a feeling of “dreaming” (in all its connotations). By Wendy McDowell
From the archive
A Look Back
Dreams, Kindness, and Determination
Excerpts from a 2004 Q&A with François Bovon in which he discusses his research interests and his books Studies in Early Christianity and Les Derniers Jours de Jesus.
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