The story of modernity is not so much that we have expelled the gods and that their throne sits empty but rather that it has been filled with a new god.

Grant Martsolf and Brandon Daily conclude their series from The Savage Collective

Williams’ work is not just a historical treatise but a call to deep introspection about what it means to live out one’s faith amidst the pressures of any culture that has a different telos than one’s religion.

LuElla D'Amico reviews Nadya Williams’ latest work

Is it possible to critique secularism in a thoroughly secular age?

Ali Harfouch on alienation and the sublime

For some, Ireland is the archetype of Christianity’s decline in the wake of modern secularization. But is there a resurgence of theological and philosophical fervor in this traditionally Catholic country?

An interview with Gaven Kerr

At the heart of the modernist controversies was the question of how human subjects are able to experience the transcendent God.

Elizabeth Huddleston on the perplexity of modernism

The way to break the vicious cycle of Fascism and Anti-Fascism… is to embrace a more personalistic conception of the state which sees in the individual a meeting place of relationships of every kind.

Matthew Scarince on Christ Stopped at Eboli

If we are serious about critiquing colonial modernity, we must reclaim notions of the divine and transcendent.

Ali Harfouch on the Limits of Postcolonial and Decolonial Paradigms

By demolishing the conflict thesis, the authors have reminded us that if we hope to make true progress, it will require disabusing ourselves of convenient narratives and embracing collaboration between faith and reason.

Zachary Stoltzfus reviews Of Popes and Unicorns

We are living in an era of crisis, which, if responded to correctly, can lead to a whole series of opportunities to change how we “do religion.”

Philip Jenkins on the decline and growth of religion in the 21st Century

What is remarkable about Hagia Sophia’s transformations is the ways in which it was architecturally transformed in line with the politico-spatial turning points in the region’s history… These architectural changes have the power to reinforce, and even ignite, historical change.

Emre Çetin Gürer maps the space of historical change in the Hagia Sophia

It is time to set aside the troubled histories of past confrontations and takeovers and strive for healing and reconciliation, by advocating to open the doors of these sites to all faiths who are invested in them.

Sahar Hosseini on the Hagia Sophia and spaces of encounter