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Ross Douthat Wants You to Believe in God

Ross Douthat Wants You to Believe in God

My column today in OnlySky. Ross Douthat wants you to believe in God The orderly universe is not the pro-God argument Douthat thinks it is. Bruce Ledewitz 13 Feb 2025 New York Times columnist Ross Douthat (DOW-thitt) is trying to engineer a renaissance of religion....

Time to Amend the Pardon Power

Time to Amend the Pardon Power

We've all had enough. An amendment is hard but inevitable. My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bruce Ledewitz: It’s time to stop presidents from abusing the power to pardon Special to the Post-Gazette Feb 10, 2025 5:30 AM Bill Clinton was accused of...

Lessons for a future atheist president from Jimmy Carter’s funeral

Lessons for a future atheist president from Jimmy Carter’s funeral

It was inspiring. When will we be able to match it? My column today in OnlySky. Lessons for a future atheist president from Jimmy Carter’s funeral A secular civilization, like any civilization, will need a story about a beneficent universe and a hopeful future. Bruce...

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…

 

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