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More than any other religious demographic in America, white evangelical Protestants support preemptive war, condone the use of torture, and favor the death penalty.
Kristin Kobes Du Mez • Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
And the third crisis, through which we’re living? That, Professor Rex argued, involves “. . . a question that would once have been expressed as ‘What is man?’ The fact that this wording is now itself seen as problematic is a symptom of the very condition it seeks to diagnose. What is it, in other words, to be human?” That, Rex rightly contends, is
... See moreGeorge Weigel • The Catholic Crisis Over “Us”
ANDREW J. BACEVICH,
Andrew J. Bacevich • American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
Turning Point:
Shawn Coyne • The Story Grid
O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
McAnnis had had one cult case before, and he knew what didn’t work—words. What did work was kidnapping. He grabbed her off the street in broad daylight—she was walking with just one other Ayuva Daeva devotee, on the way back from the Berkeley Grocery Collective, paper bags in hand—and shoved her into his rental car, placed handcuffs around her wris
... See moreDann McDorman • West Heart Kill: A novel
Twenty-five years later, Pat Buchanan has been proven correct. There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. On one side of the battlefield is the religion known as progressivism. On the other stands the New Right.