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What we have here is a failure to disbelieve

This jolly fellow is Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662), a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar. He was the first to write serious commentaries on the work of Pseudo-Dionysius, who himself (whoever...

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Richard Dawkins on science as religion

Photo by Murdo Macleod. Used by permission of the photographer Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops. – H. L....

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You’ll never guess who’s angry at God

Angry at God. A frame from Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi‘s beautiful graphic novel about the author’s life as a child and teen. She  grew up in a communist family in Iran during the Islamic Revolution....

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More Rohr

Fr. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan of the New Mexico Province. He was the founder of the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1971, and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque,...

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We like Hume. He doesn’t flame us

Allan Ramsay, Portrait of David Hume, 1766. Hume’s our man. He was skeptical as hell but never got all defensive about it. Image source: Wikimedia Commons For the life of me, I don’t know why I care so...

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Too simple to be wrong: the Bronze Age Goat Herder Conceit

My favorite goat herder: the constellation Auriga, copyright Sergey Mikhaylov. Auriga is usually called the Charioteer, but he’s almost always pictured as a goatherd on celestial maps. For those of us...

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Question: What does Einstein have in common with Jesus? I mean, besides...

Einstein in his Princeton office, 1944 Answer: Everybody wants him on their side. Christians themselves agree on little beyond Jesus’ centrality. Conservatives, liberals, revolutionaries, prosperity...

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How to talk to creationists

The Phillip Medhurst Picture Torah 14, Temptation of Adam and Eve. Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo I received a note from a youth pastor yesterday. He is fascinated by science but works...

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Yes, quantum physics is weird, but let’s not lose our senses

Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment designed to point out the silliness of over-interpreting quantum mechanics. It was devised in 1935. Alas: the silliness remains This Atlantic article was...

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