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Islam and the Secular State
“Call it X”
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im...fully respect and will do my best to protect the right of others to hold and live by such views because that is the moral justification and political basis of...
July 24, 2008
here & there
“New” pantheism enters the Oscar race
by Kathryn ReklisAfter claiming two of the big prizes at this year’s Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture—Drama and Best Director—Motion Picture), James Cameron’s Avatar is on a fast track to Oscar glory,...
February 1, 2010
Lives of Great Religious Books
The birth of a book
by Martin E. Marty...the best-known German Protestant pastor, who resisted Hitler and paid for his actions and expressions with his life. He was a man of many paradoxes: a longtime pacifist, something that...
March 22, 2011
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Oprah the Omnipotent
by Leigh Eric Schmidt...imagined a celebrity to be a particularly reliable authority on the good life, let alone the “best life”—all remain in her thrall. “Even if you want to avoid her, even...
May 16, 2011
here & there
The Charlie Hebdo shootings
by The Editors...joy and even-handedness as possible. Raise my kids, help my eldest son manage his autism as best possible, be a good mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, human. Be a living...
January 13, 2015
The politics of religious freedom
The world that Smith made
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan...Together, we will do our best to awaken in ourselves, in our fellow Catholics, and in the culture at large a new appreciation for religious liberty and a renewed determination...
March 7, 2012
The politics of spirituality
Shifting drivers of change
by Christopher McKnight Nichols...the 1990s and how can we best understand the subsequent slowdown in the current decade? There is no one compelling answer. Clearly there was and still is an ongoing transition...
December 21, 2009
An Atheism that Is Not Humanist
Secularism, atheism, antihumanism
by Stefanos Geroulanos...called “antihumanism,” I argue, can be best understood in terms of this development, which is at once theological, epistemological, and political. By way of introducing the exchanges, critiques, and discussion...
June 3, 2010
here & there
Should prayer be covered by health insurance?
by Grace Yukich...for its rejection of conventional medical treatment still considers prayer the best way to combat illness, church leaders are increasingly recognizing the difficulties of their position in the modern world....
March 23, 2010