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Pagan Interfaith Exchanges

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Certain Bible quotations speak forcefully against “pagans” and “witches,” sometimes even justifying their being...

Helen Berger

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Our Celestial Railroads

By John Kaag, Guest Contributor. Edited by Russell C. Powell November in Concord, Massachusetts, is a special kind of madness. I live three miles from the Old Manse, and on a crisp Saturday morning, the tour buses start rolling down Monument Street before...

John Kaag

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Reconciling Terms: The Shifting Lives of Qi and Energy

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey. The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. My favorite of Confucius’s meditations, “If names are not rectified,” he writes in the Analects , “speech will not...

Simon Cox

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Thoreau, Abolition, and Resistance: Lessons for Our Present

A Talk by Lewis Hyde. Sponsored by the Constellation Project. It has happened before, the occupation of an American city by federal forces, and national guard troops commandeered without local consent. It happened first in 1854 when President Franklin...
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