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A Biography as Dashing as its Subject

Dr. Drew Nathaniel Keane reviews Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne.

Trinity, Technocracy, and Grace: Thoughts Occasioned by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

In Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster movie Oppenheimer, the renowned physicist (played by Cillian Murphy) is twice heard quoting religious texts. One of these is...

Ripeness

By Joseph Mangina I suspect that among the reasons Advent is so beloved is that it gives us permission to suspend our toxic religious positivity and...

What an Early Anglican Can Teach Us about Sickness Today

By Angela Heetderks It’s tempting, in times of scientific uncertainty, to think we have nothing to learn from Christians in the distant past. We would...

What is the sign of the cross?

"The sign of the cross is a prayer."

‘Interpret thine own work’: Figural reading with George Herbert and John Donne

Donne and Herbert show us what happens when we find ourselves “translated” by the Bible’s figures: our lives are transformed as they are translated into God’s mother tongue, mercy.

“My soul eats twice”: the strange alignment of Annunciation and Passion in 2016

The Holy Spirit "speaks" through the calendar, and this becomes a proclamation of the purest sort: the kind that the "heavens" rather than the Reformed pastors "declare."

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