a review of religion and media
Pamela Constable’s Fragments of Grace is a better illustration than diagnosis of what’s wrong with foreign religion reporting. Reviewed by Jeff Sharlet FRAGMENTS OF GRACE My Search for Meaning in the Strife of Continue Reading →
Ed Simon reviews Talking God: Philosophers on Belief by Gary Gutting Continue Reading →
Ed Simon pulls at the thread of eschatomania linking an apocalypitic puritan poem to today’s news and literature. Continue Reading →
Ed Simon reviews Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell Continue Reading →
King Philip’s War and the many beginnings and ends of sacred violence in America. By Ed Simon. Continue Reading →
Ed Simon reviews Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
by Gerard Russell. Continue Reading →
Ed Simon reviews Nigel Smith’s Ranter Writings: Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom in the English Revolution. Continue Reading →
Ed Simon reviews Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry edited by Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson. Continue Reading →
By Ed Simon A review of Afterlives of Saints, in which author Colin Dickey examines that borderland where saints and sinners alone exist, oftentimes within the same person. Continue Reading →
A round-up of recent religion news.