Author: Richard Smoley

Richard Smoley is a consulting editor to Parabola. His latest book, How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying about God and the Bible, was reviewed in Parabola, Summer 2016.

The Forms of Magic, by Richard Smoley

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An introduction to Western magic

The Real Rasputin? by Richard Smoley

Gregory Rasputin, 1920. Photograph by Karl Bulla

A fresh look at “the mad monk”

Love and Money, by Richard Smoley

The secret prices of love