SHORT TAKES THOMAS ALBERT HOWARD Islam’s Future in Kathmandu How a new initiative seeks to modernize madrasa education Islam isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of...
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ARTICLE ‘Enough Bromides’ Thomas Albert Howard Rethinking interfaith dialogue Pope Francis’s 2020 encyclical, FrateUi tutti, is remarkable for highlighting St. Francis’s irenic meeting with...
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BOOKS Ocean of Wisdom THOMAS ALBERT HOWARD THE DALAI LAMA: AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE Alexander norman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $30 | 432 pp. In the not-too-distant future, the current Dalai Lama...
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After Genocide Searching for Reconciliation in the Balkans Thomas Albert Howard ^ ^ ""^k nly out of the past can you make the future," ¦ ¦ says a character in Robert Penn Warren's All the...
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Thomas Albert Howard If They Could Turn Back Time The Shipwrecked Mind On Political Reaction Mark Lilla New York Review Books, $15.95, 145 pp. The problem with being a public intellectual, the...
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SHORT TAKE Agnes R. Howard & Thomas Albert Howard A Theory of Everything THE SMALLNESS OF 'BIG HISTORY' Before the rise of professional historiography as we know it today, European scholars...
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THEOLOGY ISSUE A Question of Conscience The Excommunication of Ignaz von Dollinger Thomas Albert Howard While the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council continues to be celebrated,...
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SHORT TAKE Thomas Albert Howard Clouds of Unknowing MAKING SENSE OF THE TORNADOES Growing up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, one knew that tornadoes weren't just things that happened to other people....
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SHORT TAKES Thomas Albert Howard Return to Sand Island DAMAGE & DISAPPOINTMENT ON THE GULF COAST For me, growing up in Alabama, the waters of the Gulf always held a certain charm. My family...
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