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This is my OnlySky column response to Brooks's search for God piece in the New York Times. What David Brooks's search for God can teach secularists Brooks's essay is the kind that often exasperates nonbelievers. But is there something of value to secular civilization...
My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bruce Ledewitz: Israel is now a politically partisan issue Special to the Post-Gazette Dec 30, 2024 5:30 AM Joe Biden may be the last pro-Israel Democrat elected President. But he won’t be the last Democrat elected...
Today's column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is about prospects in the Farm Belt. Bruce Ledewitz: Make the Democrats great again Special to the Post-Gazette Dec 23, 2024 5:30 AM The Democrats, still shocked by Trump’s victory and their many other election losses,...
In The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz argues that there has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix – Americans struggle to even converse about politics and the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better.
Ledewitz posits that America is living with the consequences of the Death of God, which Friedrich Nietzsche presumed would be momentous and irreversible.
For a long time, God acted as the story of the meaning of our lives. America’s future requires that we begin a new story by each of us asking a question posed by theologian Bernard Lonergan: Is the universe on our side? When we commit to live honestly and fully by our answer to that question, even if our immediate answer is no, America can begin to heal. Beyond this, pondering the question of the universe will allow us to see that there is more to the universe than blind forces and dead matter…
