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Jews, Christians, the Pope, children
Date: 12/02/2009
David Goldman draws our attention to an essay in the Israeli journal Azure calling on Jews to re-examine their attitude toward Christians. From the Azure essay (linked in Goldman's blog): Indeed, while Catholic leaders of recent times have repeatedly expressed sorrow and even remorse for hundreds of years of antisemitism, the Jewish world has not yet shown a comparable willingness to reconside ...
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All Saints Day: A Progressive Call to Remember
Date: 10/30/2009
I've often wondered why progressive Christians don't typically celebrate All Saints Day on November 1 with more enthusiasm. Â It is, next to Christmas and Easter, my favorite church holy day--I eagerly await reading the texts of our Christian ancestors and the communal singing, "For All the Saints," in my Episcopal church. Earlier this year, I published a history of Christianity, A Peop ...
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The Problem with Being a "Hawk" on Israel
Date: 08/04/2009
David Goldman recounts a classic Jewish joke and draws the right lesson for any discussion of Israel. It concerns a Jewish family that invites a poor man to Sabbath dinner. The hostess brings out a dish of smoked whitefish, and the poor man proceeds to wolf it down. Chagrined, the hostess says, "You know, whitefish is very expensive." Between mouthfuls the poor man replies, "Believe me -- it' ...
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Robert Wright's Evolution of God
Date: 07/29/2009
It's hard for a religious believer not to appreciate, at least in part, the spirit in which Robert Wright presents his new book The Evolution of God . On one hand, he regards the history of religion as the history of an illusion. On the other hand, he argues that the evolution of that illusion represents humanity's groping toward a truth about the universe that may include the existence of a f ...
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Benedict's crunchy-con encyclical
Date: 07/10/2009
If you want to read the full 30,000-word text of P ope Benedict's new (and third) encyclical, Charity in Truth (Caritas in Veritate), go here . But Catholic Culture offers a fine summation of it . Here are excerpts from that precis relevant to our concerns on this blog: While there are many things the Church cannot offer, it can nonetheless offer the one thing necessary--the very foundation of ...
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My Dialogue with Atheists Continues
Date: 05/21/2009
Earlier this month I challenged believers in atheism to tell me how or if they find there to be meaning in life. Also, without a transcendent reality outside our own physical world that gives an objective definition to moral ideas, how can an atheist affirm the existence of any moral absolutes? Is anything truly "right" or "wrong" independent of any subjective feelings we may have about it? M ...
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New blogs you should read
Date: 05/14/2009
John Schwenkler's Upturned Earth is now on The American Conservative's site (and by the way, TAC really needs financial help from readers, so please donate ). First Things has added some must-read blogs. the great Spengler is now blogging there, as is The Anchoress , and James Poulos as ringmaster of the Postmodern Conservatives . Bookmark 'em, Dano!
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Resistance
Date: 05/12/2009
David Goldman (the former "Spengler" and now an Associate Editor at First Things") writes an intriguing piece on torture, Islam, and American arrogance. (Also remember that Goldman is Jewish and First Things is not, despite many people's misunderstanding of it, a "Catholic" publication, so do not waste time parsing his piece for how closely it adheres to Catholic teaching or the Magisterium ...
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Up from Secularism
Date: 05/06/2009
I love a really good teshuva (repentance) story, telling how a Jew found his way up from secularism to Judaism. One of the most fascinating I've read is posted on the First Things website today, by David P. Goldman (a/k/a Spengler), who passed through a period as an acolyte of cult leader Lyndon LaRouche. Goldman gives his story with tremendous honesty. It's beautiful and illuminating -- a m ...
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The courage of a "coward"
Date: 05/06/2009
In a truly extraordinary and courageous essay of self-revelation , First Things' David P. Goldman, who outed himself recently as author of the "Spengler" columns, talks about his membership in Lyndon LaRouche's "gnostic cult," how he broke free of it, and how he eventually became a religiously observant Jew. Excerpt: Around 1985, the ugly awareness that I had spent almost a decade in a gnostic ...
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