The Good, the Bad, the Bible Is there a right way to read the Bible? This question came to me as I was reading “The Good Book,” by David Plotz. The author, who is the editor of Slate, was thumbing […]
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Everyone, it seems, has a “Plan B.” You’ve had the conversation yourself with your spouse and probably with friends over dinner. In the event you can no longer be a journalist—or an investment banker, lawyer or literary agent—what will you
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You likely believe that when you die, you’re going to heaven. More than 80 percent of Americans do. But in what form? Are you “you”? If so, are you old or young, fat or thin? If not, what are you?
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After a month of controversy, Rick Warren’s performance Tuesday at the inauguration of President Barack Obama was like a good short story: in the end, it was both inevitable and surprising. The first surprise was Warren’s evident awkwardness as he
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V.Doug Paul was born in July 1981 in Richmond, Va.—demographics that make his birth, in a sense, historic. He was born, six months after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, to conservative Christian parents who knew for the first time the thrill of
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Why shouldn’t Barack Obama say “so help me God” when he takes the oath of office on Jan. 20? That’s what I wondered when I learned of the lawsuit, to be heard by a federal judge this week, which aims
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You may never have heard of E. A. Adeboye, but the pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God is one of the most successful preachers in the world. He boasts that his church has outposts in 110 countries. He
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When George W. Bush became president in 2000, he brought with him a kind of “hey, guy” Christianity that had been quietly booming in megachurches throughout the land. It was neither the formal Episcopal worship of his youth nor the
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It was, perhaps, an ill-kept secret. as Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair was officially an Anglican. Unofficially, though, he was a practicing Roman Catholic. “My wife’s Catholic, my kids are brought up as Catholics, I’ve been going to mass
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Let’s try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when he discovered his beloved wife Sarah