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BRAD HOLDEN | Fantasies, like dreams, can surprise you...

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | In 1962, my grandfather, a Swiss Jew from Zurich, sent a letter to Pope John XXIII congratulating him on being...

SAMUEL LONCAR | We can confront the fact that antisemitism is a deeply internalized part of American and European culture...

JOEL F. HARRINGTON | After nearly seven centuries of relative obscurity, the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart has emerged...

ED SIMON | Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase...

ROSEBUD BEN-ONI | It was not until our very last conversation— when you asked if I read you Amichai’s Poems of Jerusalem to keep...

BRIAN CUMMINGS | Images of Martin Luther abound in his anniversary year, and they tend to conform to a type

DAVID NORTON | Luther’s 95 Theses were written, as their opening says, “out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it”

UTE LOTZ-HEUMANN | The German Reformation has at least two vibrant historiographies that sometimes intersect

HENRY A. JEFFERIES | What makes Ireland so interesting for Reformation studies is that it stands out as the classic exception

CARLA BARICZ | A few days before New Year’s, I was awakened from deep sleep by the slow, shuddering groan of the bookshelves...

ALEC RYRIE | The philosopher Charles Taylor puts his finger on the question. “Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say,