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Category Archives: Christianity
The Workings of the Spirit
Peter Brown writes for NYBooks.com: A new history of Christianity traces its transformation over a thousand years from an enormous diversity of beliefs and practices to Catholic uniformity… Peter Heather’s Christendom is a colossal book written by a colossus in … Continue reading
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A Less Religious America Is a More Polarized America
Danielle K. Williams writes in The Atlantic 9-3-23: Declines in church attendance have made the rural Republican regions of the country even more Republican and—perhaps most surprising—more stridently Christian nationalist. The wave of states banning gender-affirming care this year and … Continue reading
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Your Hero System Is Your Morality And You Get It From Your Tribe
David Brooks writes in the latest issue of The Atlantic: HOW AMERICA GOT MEAN In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world. Over the past eight years or so, I’ve been … Continue reading
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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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