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Religion and the Olympics
by Taline Cox...he has up to six judo matches against the world’s best competitors would doom his chances of winning. “If you don’t eat and you enter a competition, you might faint,”...
Here’s your miracle
by Joshua Dubler...in the twentieth century that we come by this well-earned reputation. Loggins represented the end of an era. Ronald Reagan’s Morning in America was brief, at best. Mass culture is...
This song is old. But is it true?
by Romand Coles...conciliation and contestation, conservative and radical—that we might best fashion judgments conducive to turnings that bear the gifts of the democratic promise. In recognition that the gravitas of this responsibility...
Religious reasons & secular revelations
by Robert N. Bellah...those with whom one most disagrees, there is not much difference between us. Probably my remarks can best be seen as expressing a slightly different angle on a series of...
A burqa ban in France
by Laura Duane...He took away our right to speak for ourselves by presuming that he could speak on our behalf. And although a burqa ban would work in my best interest as...
Holy ignorance in France
by Nicole Greenfield...Roy, best known for his studies of militant Islam, uses France’s own experience to look at old time religion in the new world of the 21st century. France, like the...
Anti-Semitism in Lake Wobegon
by John Schmalzbauer...at songs like Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.” Composed by a Russian Jewish immigrant, crooned by an Irish Catholic pop star, and consumed by millions of Protestants, it is “the best-selling...
Truth and triviality: Christianity, natural law, and human rights
by Samuel Moyn...strategic reclamation of natural law in 1942 as the best framework for “human rights.” Maritain may have been intellectually closer to St. Thomas Aquinas than the many moderns who have...
Buddhism and science
by Laura Duane...area of great conceptual divergence. Whereas cognitive science’s best guess is that consciousness is an emergent property of neuronal organization, Buddhists see it at some pure subtle level as not...