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God, Mental Health, and the Millennial Mind
Volume 43, No. 3April/May 2023
Shortly after the turn of the third millennium, the New Atheists set the stage for the generations who grew up abused by religion. Gen X and baby boomer atheists and secular humanists heralded authors such as Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett for bringing some scientific perspective (as well some scrappy philosophy in Harris’s The Moral …
Mourning My Ghosts
Volume 43, No. 3April/May 2023
As long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with the unknown. I wasn’t the kid who could be placated with a simple answer. I wanted to know, and I was intuitive enough to understand that “magic” or “God” wasn’t a real answer; it was a cop-out by exasperated adults. I was open to the …
Mandela’s ‘Ubuntu Atheism’ and Why It Matters
Volume 43, No. 3April/May 2023
During his life and especially after his death in 2013, Nelson Mandela’s faith has been hotly debated. On the one hand are those such as British journalist Anthony Sampson, who, in his 1999 biography, flatly stated that Mandela “was not a formal believer like Oliver Tambo1; he did not quote the Bible or discuss theology. …
Individualism Protects True Diversity
Volume 43, No. 3April/May 2023
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to read more, might I humbly suggest a slim volume of satisfying intellectual nourishment titled Liberalism and Its Discontents by the insightful political scientist and philosopher Francis Fukuyama? This is a book for people who embrace classical liberalism with its undeniably humanistic undergirding and are worried that …
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Have Christians Accepted the Scientific Conclusion That God Does Not Answer Intercessory Prayer?
Volume 39, No. 1December 2018 / January 2019
In 1982, a young cardiologist at the San Francisco General Medical Center named Randolph Byrd had a brilliant insight that would motivate several important investigations of prayer during the following two decades. He realized that the standard research paradigm known as the double-blind randomized clinical trial could be used to test the efficacy of intercessory …
Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice
Volume 36, No. 5August / September 2016
Why be pro-abortion? Because of all the genuine, unquestioned goods it makes possible.
The Importance of Being Blasphemous
Volume 35, No. 6October / November 2015
Looking back on the Satanic Verses affair from the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it is clear that Western culture has hemorrhaged away its courage.
Popular Articles
Have Christians Accepted the Scientific Conclusion That God Does Not Answer Intercessory Prayer?
Volume 39, No. 1December 2018 / January 2019
In 1982, a young cardiologist at the San Francisco General Medical Center named Randolph Byrd had a brilliant insight that would motivate several important investigations of prayer during the following two decades. He realized that the standard research paradigm known as the double-blind randomized clinical trial could be used to test the efficacy of intercessory …
Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice
Volume 36, No. 5August / September 2016
Why be pro-abortion? Because of all the genuine, unquestioned goods it makes possible.
Looking Back
Introduction
Volume 37, No. 3April / May 2017
“Our technologies are certainly changing us and our planet.”
A Dangerous Master
Volume 37, No. 3April / May 2017
“The profits of those best able to game the system have taken precedence over the integrity and stability of markets.”
The Moral and Political Dangers of Autonomous Weapons
Volume 37, No. 3April / May 2017
“It may strike some as incredible that soldiers ‘treat their enemies with respect,’ even as they line them up in their crosshairs.”
Introduction
Volume 37, No. 3April / May 2017
“Our technologies are certainly changing us and our planet.”
A Dangerous Master
Volume 37, No. 3April / May 2017
“The profits of those best able to game the system have taken precedence over the integrity and stability of markets.”