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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Christians and the Death Penalty
The cross has been the foremost symbol of Christianity for so long that we easily forget that it was an instrument of execution. Subjects of the Roman Empire at the time could hardly forget this, and the spectacle of a … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, United States
German Christians and the Middle East
The Protestant Academy in Bad Boll is an influential think-tank located near Stuttgart, in southwest Germany. I worked there for a year in my youth, an experience which greatly influenced my thinking about the role of the church in a … Continue reading
A Long String of Atrocities
A few days ago I was with a group of people when the topic of the Armenian genocide came up. The immediate reason for the topic to come up was the action of several European legislatures to declare that the … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Judaism
What’s in a Name?
Preamble: What follows is not an argument for the truth of religion. It is an exercise in the phenomenology of religion—that is, a description of what the phenomenon of religion is all about. It is not an exercise in theology—that … Continue reading
