Moving Day: A Note from the Publisher
Editor’s note: As a number of readers have written to express confusion over the future…
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6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun
There are bright spots in the Muslim world, but a sense of ominousness is inescapable. It doesn’t just seem like the Arab Spring is over, but that the winter is here to stay.
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A Catholic Sister, a Buddhist Nun, and Two Rabbis: Friendship That Goes Beyond “Interfaith”
Four unlikely people brought together by a tiny synagogue in City Island, New York
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Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana
Mother Nature may not discriminate, but people of means have a much greater capacity to withstand disaster.
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What Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?
“He was more into women than religion,” remarked one of the neighbors of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel,…
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Of Birds and Buddhists: Wildlife Rehab, NYC Style
Spring is the busy season at the Wild Bird Fund, the only wildlife rehabilitation center…
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“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)
Traveling through India in the summer of 1998, I arrived with some friends at Varanasi’s…
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The Revolutionary Spirituality of ‘Hamilton’
Last month, the Broadway cast of Hamilton dazzled with a live Grammy performance, and last…
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History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope
From Blood Eagle to Blood Libel to “Wilding,” myths of the violent Other have underwritten violence across centuries.
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A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die
When 15-year-old Alex Cooper came out to her devout Mormon family, they drove her from…
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