Religion Dispatches
For King, the challenges of a dawning age required a recognition that globalization had produced what he called a geographical togetherness and that this togetherness very much needed a spiritual grounding.
Read MoreCarlin needed a God, wanted a God, but how could the Almighty be all-powerful if “everything he ever makes… dies”?
Read MoreCult of personality or empire?
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This four-day rock fest in rural Tennessee is an endurance event, to be sure, but for many it is a makeshift spiritual retreat—a “vibrational healing ground.” The second in a three part series…
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In which our intrepid writers let the ethereal sounds of Sigur Ros ripple and echo through them, and learn to speak “hopelandic.”
Read MoreReverend Annett noticed that in spite of the large Native American population on Vancouver Island, none of them attended his church.
Read MoreWhether it’s Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez, Michael Vick, or, more recently, Tiger Woods, the confession is the key to repairing moral failure in the world of sports.
Read MoreNominee Erroll Southers’ discussion of domestic terrorism threat of “Christian identity” groups does not mean “Christians.”
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What does it mean that the World War II Memorial in DC drowns conversation in the roar of its fountains? A new book explains what our monuments reveal about the intertwining of sacred and patriotic in American civic culture.
Read MoreHarry Reid claimed that Obama was electable because he had no African-American dialect… is that even true?
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