The site is now a book

Deen Lens started as a journal with a reference section attached. It has been rebuilt as a single book, because that is what it had quietly become: a set of arguments meant to be read in order, not a feed of dated pieces.

What changed

The reference section is now the book. Its four parts run Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Answering Christianity, and each part opens on a title page listing its chapters. Old /docs links still work — they redirect to the matching /book address.

The three evidence dashboards moved out of the book into their own section, the plates. A plate is where a book puts the material that does not set as running text: tables, charts, the apparatus. Each part links across to its plate, and each plate links back to the chapters it belongs with.

The Articles section has been withdrawn.

How it reads

The text is set the way a book sets text: one measure of about sixty-six characters, paragraphs indented rather than spaced apart, justified with hyphenation, an opening capital on the first paragraph of each chapter, and an ornament at the breaks.

There are two controls a printed book cannot offer, under the Aa button in the header: the page tint — paper, sepia, or night — and the type size. Both are remembered between visits.

What is still unsettled

Islam and Judaism have one chapter each. Both parts need more, and the plates are further along than the chapters they sit beside. That gap is the next thing to close.