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My column today at OnlySky. I recently reviewed David Hoffman’s new book American Freethought: The History of a Social Movement, 1794-1948 for the Journal of Law and Religion. By use of the term “freethought”, Hoffman is referring to all types of dissenters from...
I was interviewed by Christian writer and thinker Peter Demos on his podcast, Uncommon Sense. You can watch here or listen on various platforms.
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle asked five Pittsburgh voices to write their thoughts on America at 250. Here are mine. Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle America at 250 Guest columnist America, happy 250th birthday A healthy constitutional democracy operates on consensus....
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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