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Can AI Help Us Find God?
In the coming era, believers may turn to charismatic religious leaders—or to oracular machines.
Tyler Cowen
Why Liberal Religion Is Losing Ground
‘If you remove the religious soil, the ethics of a society will stay for a while—just like cut flowers—but eventually they will wither and die.’
Coleman Hughes
1HR 2M
Tough Love: Can I Marry an Atheist?
A young reader hopes to marry his girlfriend—but she has an ‘adverse’ reaction to God, whereas he’s becoming more religious. Should he say ‘I do’? Our…
Abigail Shrier
Tough Love: My Catholic Daughter Is No Longer a Virgin
A father is afraid his 18-year-old is ‘choosing infatuation and sin over love of God.’ Our advice columnist responds.
Abigail Shrier
The Monk Bringing Orthodox Christianity to an Island at the Edge of the World
Father Seraphim has seen pilgrims from all over the world flock to the Isle of Iona to attend his services.
Huw Paige
Things Worth Remembering: The Divine Beauty of Imperfection
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Pied Beauty’ teaches us to see in every speckled, contradictory thing an icon of the God who did not disdain to be born among…
Robert A. Sirico
The Weekend Press: My Interfaith Marriage
Plus: The year celebrities stopped saying sorry. A man should know how to wear a tuxedo. And Abigail Shrier has stern words for a reader who’s…
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Two Prophets of American Faith
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Joshua Heschel were from different centuries and traditions. They both speak clearly to our dispirited world.
David Wolpe
The Great American Religious Attic
American religious pluralism cannot be reduced to law or theory. It is a lived historical reality that has defined the nation from its earliest days.
Matthew Walther
I Saw Christ on a Hill
When I decided to spend 101 days walking into a forest, it wasn’t God I was seeking. And yet he found me.
Martin Shaw
Eleven Books to Fill That God-Sized Hole in Your Heart
Rabbi David Wolpe, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, and Eboo Patel on the titles you should read to pause, reflect, and rediscover meaning this holiday season.
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The Birth of Christianity
Why the early Christians of the first few centuries are essential to understanding our world today.
Bari Weiss
1HR 6M
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