Overthinking Heroism
An exchange on when heroes run away
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Max Porter’s first novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, won the Sunday Times/Peters, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. His work has been translated into 30 languages, and his new book Shy will be published by Faber next week.
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 sc ...
The Passion offers a pattern for our growth in holiness and the challenges it poses. Pilate going in and out of the praetorium—indicated some seven times—symbolizes the wavering and indecisiveness we often bear toward Jesus.
At the end of WWII, the Transcendental Painting Group was apparently at odds with the American public. Notions of spirituality, nature, and science be...