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My column today for OnlySky. The Jewish High Holy Days concluded on September 21. This is a time of intense self-reflection that begins in the prior month of Elul and intensifies with the holidays of Rosh Hashana—the New Year—and Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement, which...
My column today at OnlySky. There is probably no proposition more widely shared among secularists than opposing government support for private religious schools. But we have lost that fight almost everywhere. Maybe we need to take another look at what best supports...
On Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, America will hold midterm elections for Congress. These elections will determine political control of each House of Congress. At the same time, state elections will take place that will determine political control of local governments and...
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…
