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Category Archives: Christianity
The Atlantic: The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church
From The Atlantic: Nearly everyone I grew up with in my childhood church in Lincoln, Nebraska, is no longer Christian. That’s not unusual. Forty million Americans have stopped attending church in the past 25 years. That’s something like 12 percent … Continue reading
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Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
Here’s the conclusion of this 2014 book by Peter Ackroyd: * The reformation of the English Church was, from the beginning, a political and dynastic matter; it had no roots in popular protest or the principles of humanist reform. No … Continue reading
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The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships
From the LROB: * The self Margery describes is different from our modern understanding of that word, however, and not only because she appears, with perhaps feigned humility, as a mere ‘creature’. As Barbara Newman shows in her brilliant new … Continue reading
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Should Elon Musk Keep Running Twitter? (12-19-22)
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Christianity As An Identity (11-28-22)
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