...and liberals see this as Obama lending support to homophobia. An Episcopal bishop, John Bryson Chane, writes: Rick Warren has been rightly praised for his efforts to deepen the engagement...
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Justice: Rights and Wrongs
The paucity of secularism?
by James K. A. Smith...that rights talk is not a modern emergence but can in fact be found implicit in antiquity and, more importantly, in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures—and more specifically, that the...
Is this all there is
Testimonial aesthetics and public display
by Sally M. Promey
Christ of the Ozarks, Arkansas, 2015. Photo: Breanne Robertson The Christian cross is the ideal logo. The form is easily constructed, quickly assembled from readily available, generally mundane natural or...
Justice: Rights and Wrongs
First things
by Chris Nealon...is its being definitely but delicately lemony. Being definitely but delicately lemony is of non-instrumental worth and contributes that worth to the worth of the flavor, and thereby in turn...
Rethinking secularism
Sacramental poetics
by Regina Schwartz...and governed, but, to put it simply, the question of mystery. By its very nature, mystery is much more difficult to speak about, and certainly to track. But religious ritual...
here & there
Consuming religion
by Charles GelmanDiane Winston on the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey: In fact what’s most vexing about Americans’ religious illiteracy barely made headlines. Armed only with our ignorance, are we ready...
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Belief and the brain
by Nicole Greenfield...atheists disagreed with a Christian belief, or when Christians affirmed one, their pleasure centers lit up—proof that the combatants in the faith-versus-reason wars really do enjoy the fight, equally.) But...
