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This is the book cover of "Why We Need Religion" by Stephen T. Asma. The book is reviewed by David Gibson. (CNS) Help us expand our reach! Please share this article "Why We Need Religion" by Stephen T. Asma. Oxford University Press (New York, 2018). 256 pp., $29.95. Stephen Asma once was a Catholic altar boy. Today he calls himself an agnostic. He confesses he prayed when his son "was in the emergency room with an illness" but did not believe that prayer would help to heal him. "I, too, get religious" in the face of "insurmountable troubles," Asma writes. Asma, a philosophy professor at Colu...

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In recent times there has been much talk about the imminent collapse of the liberal rules based order with Russia and China citied as the main culprits for this destabilisation. Combine this with COVID-19 pandemic and, as Dr Bobo Lo argues, 'nations have regressed into narrow self-interest'. He believes that the real issue 'is a collective Western failure to live up to the principles of liberalism, a failure exacerbated by gross policy misjudgements and fraying transatlantic and European unity'. How do we move forward form here? Then, (at 15 mins), how did people in Ancient Greece cope wit...