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Mark Oppenheimer
Mark Oppenheimer is the author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture (Yale University Press).
Prayerful vulnerability: Sarah Coakley reconstructs feminism
Sarah Coakley came to Harvard in 1993, hired as part of then-dean Ronald Thiemann’s plan to bring more religiously committed faculty to Harvard Divinity School....
Embracing theology: Miroslav Volf spans conflicting worlds
When I talked to Yale theologian Miroslav Volf last summer, he was being considered as possible dean of Harvard Divinity School....
Born-again bio
Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life. By Lauren F. Winner. Algonquin Books, 305 pp., $23.95....
From Slogans to Mantras, by Stephen A. Kent
Historians have generally avoided the topic of religion in the 1960s, while sociologists often treat religion with charts and graphs but with curiously little understanding of what it's like actual...
Who lives? Who dies? The utility of Peter Singer: The utility of Peter Singer
You could make the case that Peter Singer has done more good than anyone else alive....
Quick takes
Based on John Bayley's two memoirs about his marriage to novelist Iris Murdoch, Iris is in almost all respects expertly done....
Episcopal priestesses
For many years, Suzanne Hiatt taught a course on “Death and Dying” to seminarians. When she got sick last year, she got to see how the actual experience compared to her class notes....
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