Winter 2008
Featured
Crossing Rivers
As his understanding of religion changes, a writer finds a way to continue a lifelong spiritual journey with his grandfather. By Eric Gutierrez
On the Question of Relevance
Many of the best new ideas emerge from consideration of the questions other have posed long ago, living in diverse landscapes fraught with tension, disagreement, and uncertainty. By Anne Monius
‘He looked like Jesus Christ’
What exactly is it mean to compare the photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to images of the Crucifixion? By Sarah Sentilles
Mystical Rebellion in Mexico
Women’s questioning of internalized norms on sexuality and their assertion of sexual rights is grounded in a new experience, and new definitions, of God. By Mónica A. Maher
Enchantment and Disenchantment in the Evangelical Tradition
George Eliot is a telling example of someone who embraced evangelicalism’s message of love and forgiveness but was put off by the dogma. By David N. Hempton
Dialogue
A New Voice in Darfur
Behind the arguments over Darfur are real people with real needs. By Chris Herlinger
Teflon Televangelists
For true believers, televangelists’ misdeeds just don’t matter. By Mark I. Pinsky
Another Eros
One woman’s revealing year away from the erotic. By Amelia Perkins
The Yoga Remedy
Beyond yoga’s worthy mainstream appeal. By Deborah Cohen
In Review
Books
The Crucible of Indian Nationhood
Martha C. Nussbaum’s The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future. By Tulasi Srinivas
Books
Music on Your Mind
Oliver Sacks’s Musicophilia. By James Clyde Sellman
Required Viewing
Battles of Wills
Stalingrad and Sophie Scholl: The Final Days. By Kevin Madigan
Books
A Prophet for Then and Now
Czelaw Milosz’s Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition. By Will Joyner
Poetry
Two Poems
Every Riven Thing
This Mind of Dying
By Christian Wiman
Three Poems
Froze by winter blast
Ay were alive
And a cloth bled high
By Joan Houlihan
Two Poems
Chaconne
Sleeping on the porch
By Robert Bolick
Perspective
The Imagination Resists
One of the main hooks for me in reading and writing about ‘religion’ is the delicious discovery that religious beliefs and believers do not always cut the way you might think. By Wendy McDowell
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