exegesis

reviews and commentary

"Religion-And-Science" by a-small-lab, via Flickr

Speaking of Science

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford | May 24, 2010

Krista Tippett and her interlocutors take on the “Big Questions.”

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The Moon is Elsewhere

By Ananya Vajpeyi | March 8, 2010

The presence—or absence—of the gods can make a Hindu out of even the most secular.

What makes you think you've got the right?

Still Just a Comic Book

By Garrett Baer | February 18, 2010

Asterios Polyp and the fate of life lived through modernism.

"First God Sighting" by Leland Paul via Flickr

You Call That God?

By Tibor Krausz | February 8, 2010

Why Karen Armstrong’s Case for God isn’t one.

"Lost" season four promotional image.

Against Closure

By Graham Hillard | February 1, 2010

Why television’s Lost should resist the urge to tell all.

"Spiritualism sign, College Street, Toronto" by gruntzooki via Flickr

Into the Weird

By Alexander Zaitchik | January 28, 2010

Mitch Horowitz unleashes America’s occult past.

Guercino (1591-1666), Personification of Astrology.

Astral Procrastination

By Gordon Haber | January 14, 2010

Why is it so hard to face up to one’s astrological nature?

"The Mountain Goats" by Beth Rankin via Flickr

Experiments in Sincerity

By David Dark | December 21, 2009

John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats helps bring the Age of Irony to a close.

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Journey to the End of the Night

By David Griffith | December 17, 2009

The sounds of the soul stretch from 16th-century Spain to David Lynch’s LA.

Timothy Keller, via Redeemer Seminary

The Big Placebo

By Sarah Posner | November 30, 2009

Bet you can’t guess what Pastor Timothy Keller thinks Manhattan needs more of.

A 2012 promotional wallpaper from Sony Pictures.

Long Count

By Alexander Zaitchik | November 23, 2009

Suffering through 2012, Roland Emmerich’s take on a Mayan prophecy.

J. Allan Danelek

2012 or Bust!

By Jessica Weisberg | November 19, 2009

Talking down to prophecy nuts is a delicate art.

Killing the Buddha

Eden as Asylum

By Becky Garrison | November 11, 2009

Lars von Trier’s Antichrist takes this reviewer through her soul’s own dark nights.

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), The Return of the Prodigal Son.

Prodigal Son

By Mary Gordon | November 9, 2009

The running father, the starving son, the fatted calf, the husks, and the unbearable question.

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Grass Huts and Hermits

By Karen Maezen Miller | November 5, 2009

Travels in China, on the trail of American Buddhism.

"Not to Be Reproduced" by Rene Magritte

Music for the Crossroads

By Alex Rose | November 2, 2009

Oscar Bettison’s O Death: A Requiem Masque for Six Players as out-of-body experience.

"Job Rebuked by His Friends" by William Blake, 1805-6.

The Heretical Imperative

By James Chappel | October 23, 2009

A new book probes the modern meaning of ancient heresy.

In the beginning...

Crumb’s Genesis

By Paul W. Morris | October 5, 2009

Keep on truckin’ in the Garden of Eden.