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Voices In Time

c. 1368 | Shiraz

A Great Secret

Hafez defends the sanctity of life.More

Voices In Time

c. 1905 | United States

Clad in Robes of Spotless White

James Weldon Johnson attends a camp meeting.More

Voices In Time

c. 166 BC | Judaea

Blood on the Altar

Judas Maccabeus restores the temple.More

Voices In Time

c. 1623 | London

Resurrection

John Donne’s hymn to God.More

Voices In Time

1755 | Edinburgh

As in a Great Theater

David Hume on not fearing the unknown.More

Voices In Time

778 | Saragossa

Splitting Hairs

Charlemagne strikes a blow against paganism.More

Voices In Time

384 | Rome

Let Not Demons Dance

Saint Jerome warns against the plague of lust.More

Voices In Time

1855 | Brooklyn

Be Not Curious

Walt Whitman looks beyond God.More

Voices In Time

c. 750 | China

Even Shepherd Boys Know the Dao

Wang Wei savors a moment in time.More

Voices In Time

1901 | Edinburgh

Channel of Blood

William James analyzes religious eccentricity.More

Voices In Time

c. 58 | Rome

Jumbled Atoms

A look at Lucretius’ universe.More

Voices In Time

1982 | Utah

Among the Mormons

Jon Krakauer on going back to basics in Utah.More

Voices In Time

c. 1725 | Étrépigny

Iniquity

The final testament of a French priest.More

Voices In Time

c. 600 BC | Greece

Mother of the Gods

Honoring the ultimate provider.More

Voices In Time

1835 | United States

Another Form of Hope

Alexis de Tocqueville identifies a principle of human nature.More

Voices In Time

1916 | Dublin

Contrition

James Joyce’s sermon on hell.More

Voices In Time

1843 | Kreuznach

Opium Den

Karl Marx immanentizes the eschaton.More

Voices In Time

1939 | Princeton, NJ

Albert Einstein Solves the Equation

Understanding the relationship between religion and science.More

Voices In Time

1741 | Connecticut

Bending the Bow of God’s Wrath

Jonathan Edwards gives his congregation a wake-up call.More

Voices In Time

819 | Chang’an

Remonstrance

Han Yu condemns the barbarism of Buddhism.More

Voices In Time

1773 | Boston

Aboard the Angelic Train

Phillis Wheatley on equality before God.More

Voices In Time

1779 | Monticello

Church and State

Thomas Jefferson draws the line.More

Voices In Time

c. 1880 | England

Who Knows Why?

Gerard Manley Hopkins sees god in the details.More

Voices In Time

1904 | Heidelberg

Waste Not

Max Weber on Puritans and the glorification of labor.More

Voices In Time

1887 | Indiana

It’s That Simple

The Society of Friends conscientiously objects.More

Voices In Time

1823 | England

Painted Wood

William Hazlitt dismantles the world of make-believe.More

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