Elaine Pagels

Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation professor-of-religion emerita at Princeton University and the author of The Gnostic Gospels and, most recently, Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus.

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  2. The Moral Foundation of America

    The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.

    Elaine Pagels
    illustration in style of an engraving of a tree branch with a lit lantern hanging from it, beaming out light
    Illustration by Colin Hunter