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Richard Dawkins’s cultural “Christianity” could hollow out our faith far more efficiently than straightforward attacks.

Despite repeated warnings, Dawkins assumed the traditions that formed his cultural identity were silly and unnecessary things that could be discarded without much consequence. Whoops.

Tom Holland recently invited me to attend a service of Evensong with him at London’s oldest church, St Bartholomew the Great. Holland, who co-hosts the phenomenally popular The Rest is History podcast, has been a regular congregant for a few years. He began attending while researching Dominion, his bestselling book which outlined the way the

I asked a few weird fiction writers and editors to send me one question each for Thomas Ligotti. Here's the result! With questions by Jeffrey Ford, Michael Cisco, John Langan, S.P. Miskowski, Ramsey Campbell, Joe Pulver, and others.

There was little that was new about the New Atheism – a post-9/11, anti-religious movement headed by Richard Dawkins and the like. Certainly the arguments had not progressed from those given by Bertrand Russell a century earlier. In many ways, the arguments were worse. At least Russell was a philosopher. ...

The intellectual classes and the Gnostic revolution.

Back in the late 1970s, the religious Right was embarking on social and political activism in a big way that would make it a major force in American life. To promote the effort, in 1979 Jerry Falwell, Paul Weyrich, Richard Viguerie, and others did something as audacious as it was an unethical li ...

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Nicholas Rescher was an exemplar of both academic excellence and a strong Christian faith.

Author Max Bennett explains to JP OMalley why the evolution of the brain holds the key to the future of AI