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2025-01-15 04:41

Augustine and slavery

Sain Augustine looks down.

Augustine is America’s public theologian again. Digging deeper into Augustine’s thought reveals why Augustinian Christian Nationalism is unviable.

Forging an American vision of Jewish masculinity

Illustration from "Write like a Man" book cover. New York intellectuals sitting around a table shaped like Manhattan.

When we think of Jewish masculinity in the United States, our imagination likely conjures up the quintessential nebbish: the neurotic, bookish, geeky intellectual type: think Woody Allen or, more recently, Seth Rogen or even Timothée Chalalemet.

Listening to the desert

Zin Wilderness landscape scene

Deserts are among the most deeply evocative landscapes in the world. They inspire fear and awe, devotion and revulsion, fascination and longing.

Sonorous Desert

Ideas Podcast: Sonorous Desert, Kim Haines-Eitzen

For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising in their harsh desert surroundings: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant.

Life-changing doubt, the Internet, and a crisis of authority

Hasidic Jews walk to temple on the sabbath in Williamsburg Brooklyn

Yisroel was an earnestly pious boy growing up Hasidic in Brooklyn, New York. With his side curls grazing his shoulders, thick plastic glasses, and big black velvet yarmulke, he looked like all the other boys in his yeshiva, where he studied the Torah and its commentaries from early in the morning until late at night.