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My column in OnlySky. Given all the other matters decided by the Supreme Court in its recently concluded term, readers of OnlySky can be forgiven for forgetting about what is happening to the separation of church and state. When the New York Times published its annual...
My column yesterday in OnlySky--I put it as a question, but only because we might lack the will. It was almost a relief to read that the Trump Administration admitted in court documents that it cancelled clean energy research grants “based solely on the political...
My column at OnlySky. In his 1943 book The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis described the theory of objective value as follows: It is the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of thing the...
In The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz argues that there has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix – Americans struggle to even converse about politics and the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better.
Ledewitz posits that America is living with the consequences of the Death of God, which Friedrich Nietzsche presumed would be momentous and irreversible.
For a long time, God acted as the story of the meaning of our lives. America’s future requires that we begin a new story by each of us asking a question posed by theologian Bernard Lonergan: Is the universe on our side? When we commit to live honestly and fully by our answer to that question, even if our immediate answer is no, America can begin to heal. Beyond this, pondering the question of the universe will allow us to see that there is more to the universe than blind forces and dead matter…
