Saint John of the Cross (1542–1591) occupies a place in Spanish literature that doesn’t quite match anything in English poetry. He’s not exactly the Chaucer (c. 1345–1400) of the language; that’s ...

She yards out chiffon and sorts the paper pattern for me frock. The kitchen table's a feast of pins, shears and tailor's chalk. Ma steadies and measures me. She cuts the pattern on the bias. Watch her ...

“What will be God’s,” asks Tertullian, “if all things are Caesar’s?” It’s a challenging question at a time when the state is asking us to acquiesce to a secret, unaccountable police force. Since 1900, ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Journal of Religion is one of the publications by which the Divinity School of The University of Chicago seeks to ...