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Now that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette does not publish opinion pieces, I will sometimes post comments here, in my Hallowed Secularism blog. Fortunately, in this instance, the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle published my thoughts on Justice David Wecht's public announcement...
My column today in OnlySky. Indonesia models a different kind of secularism, premised on religious diversity and coexistence. Bruce Ledewitz 01 Jun 2026 My wife, Patt, and I just returned from a life-altering visit to Indonesia. I would never have believed that a...
This column was scheduled to run in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but the new ownership is not using columnists. Trib/Live graciously picked it up. Bruce Ledewitz: Violating the conscience of the taxpayer Recently, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court decision struck down...
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…
