The Ethics of Representing Disaster
Marta’s story from the Talmud stands within a long history of representing crisis through womanhood, in which visual and textual images of women’s bodies become icons of disaster. By Julia Watts Belser
Featured
The Road of Excess
Most young people who party want to live moments of communion, intensity, and freedom, and to carry these moments into the future. By Sébastien Tutenges
Exotic Ordinary
Action and passion coexist in this portrait of one spirit medium in Madagascar, evoking complex philosophical questions. By Michael Lambek
Doubting Thomas, Restaged
An insightful reading of “the Thomas of the text” as Jesus’s “twin” suggests that the cult film Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a faithful retelling of the Gospel narrative. By Charles M. Stang
The Fog of Religious Conflict
Eleven reflections on religious and ethnic conflict, drawing on the author’s formative experience living through the Troubles in Northern Ireland. By David N. Hempton
Dialogue
Visiting the Void
Many recovery workers periodically return to Ground Zero as a way of reconnecting with the values they experienced there. By Kate Yanina DeConinck
Dying Well
We need to find better words and metaphors to cope with the reality of death. By Tamara Mann
Risky Invocations?
State-sanctioned religious beliefs and activities will only bring conflict in a religiously diverse United States. By Anthony J. Minna
Nurturing Jewish Philanthropy
Recent financial scandals should redirect us to time-honored Jewish practices of philanthropy. By Robert Israel
Jews, Evangelicals: Analyzing the Vote
Any hoped-for “Jewish–evangelical alliance” in the 2012 election proved elusive. By Mark I. Pinsky
In Review
Film
Cancer Rites and the Remission Society
50/50 captures the rites and rituals of cancer patients. By Paul Stoller
Books
Exposing the Fine Lines
Susie Linfield’s The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence. By Chris Herlinger
Books
What Broken Souls Can Teach
Julia Lieblich and Esad Boškailo’s Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning after Terror. By Will Joyner
Books
Right-Brain Religion, Left-Brain Science
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning. By Daniel Goodman
Poetry
Saying Grace
By Liz Waldner
We Lost Everything
By Andrea Cohen
Two Poems
Vision of the Fear of Death
The Song of the Daysbird
By Gerard Beirne
Perspective
Defining Our Humanity
If we are honest about our own emotions, we are likely weeping the tears of Aristotle’s catharsis, which are worth next to nothing if, through their shedding, they—and we—effect no change. By Kit Dodgson
From the archive
October-November 1987
from Toward an American Public Theology
By Ronald Thiemann
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