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7 Habits of a Highly Effective Philosopher

By Nathan Schneider | July 12, 2013

Life lessons from the Christian apologist William Lane Craig.

An American Eden, Dead on the Fourth of July

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford | July 4, 2011

Greetings, fellow Americans. I’d like to pay tribute to a little-known patriot who died on the fourth of July, 30 years ago. Although it’s not as exciting as being Born…

Clarence Schmidt. Photo by David E. Johnson, via Flickr.

Mountainous Harmony and Everlasting Peace

By Greg Bottoms | June 30, 2011

Great art meets faulty wiring.

Not That Kind of Girl

By Jeff Sharlet | March 17, 2009

Carlene Bauer does not care for the new biography of Flannery O’ Connor by Brad Gooch: Aquinas is described as having “lofty, lucent prose” — which is like saying Plato…

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Evangelical

By Jeff Sharlet | May 4, 2005

Jonathan Edwards and the making of America.

Don’t Stop Unbelieving

By Scott McLemee | May 20, 2003

A new biography of America’s most godless woman.

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