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  The Holy Ledger: How to Turn Sin into Profit The news from Pakistan’s Darul Ifta is a classic exercise in theological acrobatics. By decla...

  The New Tabernacle: How We Bow to the Invisible Hand We like to tell ourselves that we have outgrown the age of gods and temples. We view ...

  The Razor’s Edge of Trust: Can We Really Have Both? The debate over ceremonial blades—whether it’s the Sikh  kirpan , the Scottish  sgian-...

  The Divine Delusion: When Revolution Meets Theology History is rarely a clean break from the past; more often, it is a clumsy recycling of...

  The Performance of Power: The Double-Edged Sword of Divinity We often mistake the symbols of authority for authority itself. In the early ...

  The Abbot’s Digital Dharma: When Enlightenment Meets the Blockchain In the great theater of human hypocrisy, few scenes are as exquisitely...

  The Miracle of Coincidence: Why We Keep Praying for Rain It is a beautiful delusion, isn't it? Two Yale economists and a Spanish geogr...

  The Tyranny of the Loudest: How We All Became Prisoners of an Imaginary Saint We like to believe that our societal norms are built on coll...