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Does Science Prove God Is Dead? – Religion & Liberty Online
Was the universe created, and did God create it? It would be wonderful if we could assemble a team of unbiased scientists to examine the evidence and come to a clear conclusion. And at first that’s what I anticipated as I sat down to read God,…
Bring Back Your Dead – Religion & Liberty Online
How we treat our dead has long been a sign of what we believe it means to be human in the first place. Read More… One of the strangest of many strange 21st-century phenomena is the adoption of the ideas of 20th-century left-wing thinkers by the…
Why the Woke Think the Way They Do – Religion & Liberty Online
Leftists used to focus on economics, but today they fixate on nonbinary genders, microaggressions, and pronouns. Woke progressivism may seem silly, but Jordan B. Cooper, in his new book, Makers of the Modern Mind: A Guide to the Thinkers Who…
Do You Have to Go Rural for a Good Life? – Religion & Liberty Online
Dana Milbank was once one of the most insufferable of The Washington Post’s reporters and columnists. For decades, Milbank gained a reputation for serial exaggeration and distortion, such as misrepresenting his interview subjects. His partisan…
Marty Supreme and the Return of the Antihero – Religion & Liberty Online
Most Oscar movies have no audience and few admirers and are instantly forgotten (name last year’s winner). One exception is Marty Supreme, which has just received nine Oscar nominations. More surprising, it has already reached into the IMDb Top…
Man Does Not Live by Smartphones Alone – Religion & Liberty Online
While reading Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life one can’t help but recall Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis of Culture. Written just after WWII, Pieper asked what new world the Allies would build in the…
We Can’t Afford to Ditch the Rich – Religion & Liberty Online
Why Democracy Needs the Rich by John O. McGinnis arrives at a moment when public discourse treats wealth less as a social fact and more as a moral pathology. Consequently, McGinnis writes into an atmosphere thick with slogans, suspicion, and…
Modern Times for Our Times – Religion & Liberty Online
What we call Western civilization is in a precarious state today, challenged by the loss of religious values, a threat from aroused Islamic radicalism, romantic notions of “collectivism,” and a dangerous decline in the value of freedom of speech…
Modern Times for Our Time – Religion & Liberty Online
What we call Western civilization is in a precarious state today, challenged by the loss of religious values, a threat from aroused Islamic radicalism, romantic notions of “collectivism,” and a dangerous decline in the value of freedom of speech…
The Prodigal of Leningrad – Religion & Liberty Online
In my memories, December 31 in Leningrad, Russia, was always cold. Of course, the city has been called St. Petersburg, its pre-Revolutionary name, for much of my life, but for the almost decade that I lived there, it was Leningrad. So in my…