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William James on Faith, Echoing Exodus
By
David Klinghoffer
The great psychologist writes wonderfully in “The Will to Believe” (1897): We feel, too, as if the appeal of religion to us were made to our own active good-will, as if evidence might be forever withheld from us unless we met the hypothesis half-way….I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic…
Billy Graham on the Hebrew Bible: What’s It Good For?
By
David Klinghoffer
A couple of times I’ve come across the Rev. Billy Graham’s syndicated newspaper columns — yes, they are still being published — and on both occasions he was answering a letter from a reader who was perplexed upon trying to read the Hebrew Bible, or “Old Testament.” The column that was in yesterday’s papers is…
Why God is Not a Liberal: The View from Leviticus
By
David Klinghoffer
Jews read the Torah in a yearly cycle, one portion per Sabbath. Now that Passover is past, we’re back to the regular schedule. This week’s reading is Tazria-Metzora (Leviticus 12:1-15:33), and it’s not an easy read. Not only because the subject matter is displeasing — a kind of skin disease, not leprosy but that’s often…
Ghosts, Aliens & the Hebrew Bible
By
David Klinghoffer
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; Lilith also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest (Isaiah 34:14). Somehow it happened that my earlier comment about a secular age like ours being a Dark…
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