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David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
“You Might Think,”
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Evangelical churches have done better than mainline ones at combining authenticity and morality into tones the bobo can understand: chiefly, the use of self-help tactics and therapeutic language.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
He couldn’t be an ordinary priest—it wasn’t the life for him; he was ill defined for it, he needed more space for his doubt.
Colum McCann • Let the Great World Spin
The arc of his life helped to create a very particular California sensibility, a state of mind that has gone on to spread throughout the entire world.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
“Until the Good Friday Experiment,” he told an interviewer in 1996, “I had had no direct personal encounter with God.”
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
We need to be very careful about thinking that a Christian necessarily looks and acts a certain way.