Ross Douthat, on the urgent need of the militant atheist Jerry Coyne to insist that any Christian who does not take Genesis literally is a bad Christian who doesn’t understand his own religion: The ...

My Pandora shuffle is a mix of Gregorian chant, polyphony, and New-Agey chill, with a dash of what we plebeians call “classical music” thrown in for good measure. George Winston follows Palestrina, ...

Anselm's ontological proof, which sets out to show that God must exist and which depends upon the premise that human beings can conceptualize God, seems antithetical to the apophatic tradition, but ...

The Christian tradition essentially offers two ways of meditation, prayer and contemplation as pathways to the elusive and fragile presence of God. They go by two different and difficult names: ...

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and then God is not like the sound the kindling makes as it meets the matchhead, not like the buoy in the bay invisible at night, not like the gravity calling to the pear on the bough above the field, ...

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