Imagining Where You Are: A Tribute to Wendell Berry (1934–2026)
Last week, we learned that Wendell Berry had entered into fellowship with the ‘dead [that] that are alive’.1 I spent the past year reading…
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Religion from the Outside: Christian Symbols Reinterpreted, Reframed, and Redeployed
An Introduction to our Autumn Series By Brendan Wolfe and Madeleine Meyer To commemorate 13,000 Soviet soldiers buried in Berlin after the city’s capture…
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A Letter from the Editors
A World Ablaze: Reflections on Our Summer Theme In her famous epistolary novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s protagonist John Ames writes in his Pentecost sermon that…
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Exposing Ezekiel: Embodied Prophecy in Bialik’s ‘Be-‘ir haharegah’
Hayyim Nachman Bialik’s ‘Be-‘ir haharegah‘ (‘In the City of Slaughter’) remains one of the most powerful literary responses to the Kishinev Pogrom. Bialik, a…
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Sewing Seeds: Circular Fashion as Analogy
When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God…
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Mirror of Holiness
Are not these people, who are speaking in various tongues, from Galilee? How is it that each of us hears them speaking in the language to which we were…
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The Tomb, the Throne, and the Fire: A Theological Reading of the Pentecost Icon
In traditional Christian iconography, Pentecost is associated with the image of tongues of flames, fire, or even doves, which signify the Holy Spirit in…
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The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you…
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A Fire That Lights Other Fires: Tolkien on Creation
‘I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable’ could almost belong to a liturgy of Pentecost or Confirmation, yet it does not. It is…
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