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“Ryan Burge (born 1982) is an American political scientist, statistician, and former pastor,” to quote Wikipedia. Burge has become the nationally recognized expert on demographic and other trends on the American religious scene. He has often been cited in stories about the rise of the “Nones” and the decline of Christian churches generally. Thi...
Grief and loss are perhaps the most impactful experiences we ever have. Falling in love is likely the closest competitor. I don’t know how you compare the effects they have upon us, seemingly so opposite. It would be interesting to know which subject comes up more often in poetry. It’s likely a close contest.
Grief can shatter some people, paralyzing them or wo...
In 1927, the English philosopher Bertrand Russell gave a lecture in London titled, “Why I am not a Christian.” It was later published as an essay, translated into multiple languages, and remains popular nearly a century later. Remarkable at the time, the arguments Russell presents are ones we have likely all heard for why the idea of God is illogical and why Christian...
Richard Carrier is a very smart man. He is also a good writer and speaker. Born in California in 1969, Carrier served with the Coast Guard, graduated from UC Berkley, and earned a PhD in ancient history from Columbia. His focus has been on ancient Greece and Rome and the origins of Christianity, and he is the author of numerous ...
At a press conference prior to the Second Iraq War, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spoke about three types of information present in any situation. There are, he said, the known knowns, the known unknowns (what we know we don’t know), and the unknown unknowns. These latter, according to Rumsfeld, were “the difficult ones” because these were facts you didn’t know...