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Brook Wilensky-Lanford

Brook Wilensky-Lanford is author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America, coming in June 2026, both from Grove Press. Learn more about her work at www.brookwilensky-lanford.com

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Religion Dispatches

The Jewish Daily Forward is Neither Jewish, Nor Daily (But Still Forward). Discuss!

Venerable Jewish publication becomes a “none.”
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
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Religion Dispatches

Karen Armstrong, Caped Anti-Anti-Muslim Crusader?

When a friend recently saw me carrying around a galley of Karen Armstrong’s latest book Fields of Blood: A History of Religion and Violence to review, she was puzzled. “But you hate Karen Armstrong!”…
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
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Public Prayer Verdict Shows Its True Colors

This May, the Supreme Court’s Town of Greece vs. Galloway ruling allowed sectarian invocations at town meetings. But moderates assured us that that could mean any “sectarian.” As if to support this…
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
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