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In this thoughtful if misguided piece from The Wall Street Journal by Alain de Botton, we find another secular thinker lamenting the loss of what Christianity has given us: community, a sense... Read more
The science of violence seems to be en vogue at the moment; we already highlighted Steven Pinker's (silly) book at the end of last year, and now John Horgan has... Read more
It's long been an element of American lore that Thomas Jefferson took a razor to his Bible, ripping out pages that he found unpalatable while leaving intact most of Christ's... Read more
We've spent a great deal of time discussing the Richard Dawkins' version of secularism. There is, however, another version - what we might call "soft secularism" - that champions neutrality... Read more
Here is a short but fascinating piece of news from ABC about a woman who responded to a violent attacker by reading him Scripture. The woman's counter-intuitive response is itself... Read more
I must confess from the outset that I have not read Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, though I intend to at some point. I have read and heard and... Read more
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