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For Raed Jarrar, the FBI’s recent decision to begin tracking hate crimes against Arabs is a victory in a larger war....

I can’t quit thinking about Yakub. In my purse I have a print clipping that includes a photo of the 12-year-old boy staring into the camera with a copy of Steve Jobs’s biography held high over his head. I pull it out from time to time and imagine Yakub at work.

New today from the Century: Philip Jenkins on Armenia's survivors, Frank Honeycutt remembers WIll Campbell, more.

Campbell got into trouble in lots of different ways. As a seminarian, I was particularly impressed that he dared to drink whiskey with the Klan.

One cannot think of American comedy without mentioning Jewish contributions, from the Marx brothers to Mel Brooks....

The Song of Songs is about cherishing everything that makes another human being distinctive. It's the opposite of indiscriminate violence.

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It has become cliché to note that we live in a world of information overload. Being cliché, of course, does not make it any less true. We professors are well aware of our inability to keep up with the fantastic production of new knowledge in our own specialties, yet the torrent of words overwhelms not only scholars but all readers. Who can possibly read all the books, magazines, journals, newspapers, blogs, tweets and posts worth reading? And what is worth reading, anyway?  This deluge is often ascribed to the digital revolution, and indeed the internet and pervasive connectivity have greatly expanded our reading options. Nevertheless, the historically minded will recognize in our current situation merely the ongoing ripples of earlier information revolutions.

During the time of Elijah’s ministry, while the LORD was particularly angry with Ahab and his Ba’al-worshiping wife Jezebel, God shut off the rain in the fertile crescent for three years....

New today from the Century: Stephanie Paulsell on the Song of Songs, Matt Hedstrom on when the mainline told us what to read, more.

After Cloven Tongues of Fire is a collection of historian David Hollinger’s writings on 20th-century Amer­ican Protes­tantism....

"Supersessionism is like a submerged resentment that infects all our social relationships. That's why overcoming it is so important."

c. 2013 USA Today (RNS) Jallen Messersmith has been hearing gay slurs all his life....

"Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful,” Jezebel said to Ahab....

In the weeks leading up to May 21, 2011, young filmmaker Zeke Piestrup asked radio-show host and apocalypse predictor Harold Camping if he could accompany him in the final days of the wo...

If you’ve been here long, you won’t be shocked to hear that I’m not impressed by a lot of what American conservatives have to say about domestic poverty. (Though I do appreciate the basic political courage it takes for an elected official to even use the word.)  But there is at least one idea from the right that I’m more or less on board with: we should be very careful about cutting the tax deduction for charitable contributions.

New today from the Century: Kendall Soulen on Christians and Jews, Amy Frykholm on the Harold Camping documentary, more.

"About a third of the women in my study felt stigmatized by churches. Some mentioned not having nice clothes; some were ashamed of being on welfare."