Father Richard John Neuhaus lived an inimitable, outsized, and altogether unlikely life, starting from a small town in Ontario and winding up as probably the most influential Christian American intellectual and clergyman since Reinhold Niebuhr. The obits in the newspapers point first to the many conversions in his life — from protesting the war...
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Richard Dawkins does not believe in God, and he thinks that you shouldn’t either. In fact, if you do believe in God, he thinks that it is probably because you are deluded, weak-minded, uneducated, and quite possibly perverse. All this and then some he argues in his latest book, The God Delusion, which by...
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It is almost impossible to say anything bad about Mma Precious Ramotswe, the warm and tenderhearted lady detective from Botswana at the center of Alexander McCall Smith’s popular series, “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.” No one really has, and who could? If you have read the books, you know that Mma Ramotswe is...
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(Or, Why Steven Pinker Has One) Some months ago, I received a check for several hundred dollars from Harvard University, because I had been authorized by President Lawrence H. Summers to attend church regularly and tell children about Jesus. No, I am not joking. Believe it or not, that is a true statement, although...
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Welcome to 2.1! - Opinions – Things That Count by Jordan Hylden ‘06 God and the Tsunami by Megan Buresh ‘08 Why I Go to Church by Nathan Rosenberg, Jr. ‘05 Jesus in the Real World: Reclaiming What Christian Culture Forgot by Mark Hill ‘05 – Features - Looking for Fathers in All the...
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My grandmother died today. For you, the reader, it will have been days, weeks, months, perhaps even years since she died, but for me, it was today. I am still sorting it out-I had no intention of writing this piece about her, but somehow, there is nothing else right now that seems worth writing...
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Welcome to 1.2! - Opinions – On Life and Stem Cells by the Editors Sins of Omission by Benjamin and Heather Grizzle ‘03 Gays and God: What’s at Stake for Conservatives by Jeffery David Dean ‘06 – Features - The Underground Man, and How He Got There by Jordan Hylden ‘06 The Preaching of...
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