The Latest from Jack Miles
This page contains the most recent books, articles, addresses, interviews and other posts by, and news about, Jack Miles.
Latest books
Jack Miles' current book is A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life, co-authored with Mark C. Taylor. Published on July 5, 2022.
Miles' previous book is Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story (Norton: November 12, 2019), a personal reflection on his work editing the monumental, 4448-page Norton Anthology of World Religions (Norton: November 3, 2014).
Miles' book before this was God in the Qur'an (Knopf: November 13, 2018), the third in a series of scriptural interpretations of the three Abrahamic faiths, after God: A Biography and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God.
Latest articles, addresses, interviews, etc.
Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life - Miles and the co-author of his most recent book, A Friendship in Twilight, had a discussion about their work recently published as a podcast by Things Not Seen on July 31, 2022.
2022 Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony - Jack Miles gave the Keynote Speech at UCI's PBK Mu Chapter Induction on June 9, 2022.
Exclusive: Why Any Religion? (instead of none) -- Miles published the afterword to God in the Qur'an on this site March 14, 2022.
P&P Live! with Francesca Stavrakopoulou and Jack Miles - The two authors and scholars discussed Stavrakopoulou's forthcoming God: An Anatomy Sun, January 30, 2022 as part of Politics and Prose's live authors series. See a link to Miles' review of the book below.
Miles discussed his book God in the Qur’an on the eve of the commemoration of 9/11 as a keynote speaker, published by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles on September 13, 2021. Also available to watch on YouTube under the title An Evening with Jack Miles: The Qur’an and Interfaith Relations.
Exclusive: Miles added his Introduction to the Best American Spiritual Writing 2004 to this site on September 6, 2021. It is a personal exploration of his spiritual journey.
Getting to grips with God - Miles reviewed God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou for the Catholic Herald in their September 2021 issue, published online on September 2, 2021. [Free registration required to read.] The review was also published in the Los Angeles Review of Books on January 12, 2022 with the headline God's Body Up Close.
Upcoming events
The Tower of Babel: People's Choice or Public Nuisance? - Putting God on trial, University Synagogue’s 12th Biblical Trial summons as a juror in this year’s compelling case. Miles will be a panelist for the event at University Synagogue in Irvine, California. Originally scheduled for November 14, 2021, this event has been postponed until September 18, 2022.
More by Jack Miles
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