Author: Adam Lee
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Why libertarian cities fail
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Freedom-loving libertarians who build communities under the assumption that natural resources are unlimited discover, to their dismay, that this isn’t so.
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Church isn’t the answer to hustle culture
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Hustle culture is a crisis of capitalism, not a spiritual crisis. Historically, Christianity has been on the wrong side by teaching that work was a virtue and leisure was a sin.
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The southern future of Christianity
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Christianity is ceasing to be a white religion, and is becoming mostly a faith for people of color in the Global South, according to an American Anglican priest. Millions of those believers practice emotionally-charged worship styles, hold fundamentalist views, and speak in tongues. Writing in the New York Times, in a report titled “The Global…
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The priceless gift of attention
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We writers aren’t just competing with our peers, but with all the greatest masterpieces of the ages. How’s a reader to choose?
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New York is a city of freedom, not a city of God
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New York Mayor Eric Adams’ thoughtless and un-American attack on secularism shows a failure to understand what makes his own city great.
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The irrational love of music
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Some of us crave classical music with a raptured obsession that defies logical explanation.
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Bleeding the church: Conservative Catholics revive the Inquisition
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The Catholic church is suffering a massive priest shortage, and conservatives want to make it worse by hunting down clerical sinners so they can be purged.
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Gen Z is killing religion
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Gen Z is the least Christian generation in American history, and as they come into their own, their influence is reshaping culture and politics. The era of the religious right is drawing to a close.
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The yearly torment of living in red states
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We who live in conservative rural states suffer an annual nightmare as right-wing legislators try to wreck personal freedoms and sound science. In the 2023 West Virginia legislative session, which ended last weekend, the troglodytes tried to (1) force rape and incest victims to bear babies, (2) pass a “religious freedom” law to let Christians…
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Why is God male?
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Conservative theologians sputter with rage at the notion of using female or non-gendered pronouns to refer to God, but they have no rational explanation for why this offends them so deeply.