I recommend Avishai Margalit’s book “The Ethics of Memory.”
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“Morality is long on geography and short on memory. Ethics is typically short on geography and long on memory.”
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From the mouths of babes?
Young clerics, aging parishes. Plus: a portal to Jewish culture and six degrees of hyperlinks.
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Preemptive strike.
“His game from the start has been to foment the old-as-Hollywood canard that the ‘entertainment elite’ (which just happens to be Jewish) is gunning for his Christian movie.”
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Bright bigotry?
The people with the biggest negative shift in their assessment of Islam aren’t Evangelicals.
“I think we can get people rights in this generation if we don’t take on a cultural, religious icon.”
Gay marriage, or civil union laws, will only succeed in the long run when it’s perceived as having mainstream acceptance and democratic — not just popular — support.
John Updike reviews books about Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A rip-roaring review of the way “brights” theorize about religion.
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Knit this in remembrance of me.
I can’t resist sharing Ship of Fools’ latest gadget for God.