In the new secular civilization that is being born worldwide, religion will not disappear. Not only will there continue to be vast numbers of religious believers, but the civilizational imprint of religion will continue to influence secular forms of life. That will...
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Joe Manchin, Take a Bow
My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette argues that if the Democrats win in November, they can thank Sen. Joe Manchin.
What is the Election About–the Dark Mood
My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
THE UNIVERSE IS ON OUR SIDE
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…