Children at an Orthodox Christmas Mass at the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City on Jan. 7, 2023. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ImagesA bomb struck the complex of the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza on Oct. 19, 2023, killing more than a dozen of the hundreds of Christians and Muslims taking shelter inside and wounding others. As a historian of Roman Christianity who focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean, I am often confronted by the complexity of this region. Many Christian and Musli
I want to announce and celebrate the publication of a really valuable new book, and I say from the outset that I had nothing whatever to do with writing
While prominent superstars like Kanye West and Kyrie Irving have been making the headlines for expressing antisemitic beliefs, Tennessee is also facing its own battle with anti-Jewish sentiment. In September
On Tuesday night, the Department of Religious Studies virtually hosted Tracy Pintchman, professor at Loyola University of Chicago, to give an Anjali Lecture in Hindu Studies, entitled "Goddess Beyond Boundaries:
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