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Lindh's sad story and his quest for meaning resonate because they are, unfortunately, all too familiar. I have known many people like Lindh, including a few in my own family. During the '70s, one of my brothers ran off and joined a religious cult. In the process, he disowned...
You learn a lot from the Bible. There are, first, the moral teachings: Love your neighbor, obey the Ten Commandments and so on. There are answers to the Big Questions: God exists; we are immortal; the choices we make now determine the way we spend eternity.
But few are the policies that meet this standard. When religious instruction passes from personal virtue and universal ideals to political stumping, warning bells should go off in our heads—even when the issue at hand is as weighty as war. The vast majority of committed Christians are...
At a party to celebrate the award of this year's Man Booker Prize to Yann Martel for his novel The Life of Pi, the talk among the champagne-fuelled literati wasn't of near-winners, worthy losers or contentious judges. The chatter accompanying the toasts, the hugs and the...
In the Image begins with a snapshot in time, a single event that propels the narrative both forward and backward: the death of Naomi Landsmann, Leora’s best and only friend. This event causes Leora to meet Naomi’s grandfather, Bill, whose passion for Biblical photographs...