Category Archives: Religion

In the Beginning

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Much as I am not a fan of the public nuisance better known as Karen Armstrong, the opening two paragraphs of a review she has written for the FT today caught my eye: Over the course of his long, distinguished … Continue reading →

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The Islamic Reformation

Posted on July 7, 2012 by David Hume

In the wake of 9/11 there was a lot of talk about an “Islamic Reformation.” Such discussion was a key pointer to elite and public ignorance about the exact nature of the Reformation. On the one hand, the Reformation did … Continue reading →

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Same Script, Different Stage

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-Posted on the Corner: Remember the Buddhas of Bamiyan? Well, here we go again… Via the Guardian: Islamists armed with Kalashnikovs and pick-axes have destroyed the centuries-old mausoleums of saints in the Unesco-listed city of Timbuktu in front of shocked … Continue reading →

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Rector Tries to Work Things Out. Fails

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Rev. Gavin Dunbar is rector of Saint John’s, Savannah, Georgia, and here’s what he has been saying recently: …The new atheists proclaim their gospel with the fervour of believers: God is dead, man is free, free from the destructive illusions … Continue reading →

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Hikikomori, Again

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Forward: “Dear Jew: You are entering a dangerous place. Shield your eyes.” That’s the Hebrew-language text on a huge billboard that an Orthodox group has paid to post alongside a Brooklyn highway. The “dangerous place” is Manhattan. The … Continue reading →

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Smitten by God (or Something)

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s Sally Quinn in the Washington Post: The mystics say you can find God anywhere. I believe many women have found him in “Fifty Shades of Grey.” The trilogy has sold more than 10 million copies, mostly to women over … Continue reading →

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Worth Buttressing

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

It was Winston Churchill (an agnostic, essentially) who famously said that he was not a pillar of the Church of England, but a buttress, ”supporting it from the outside”. I feel much the same way (I would still check C … Continue reading →

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Hikikomori (of a sort)

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Salon: When I first brought home our sleek, silver, double-deck, Panasonic stereo cassette player during the summer of 1993, my then-wife, Gitty, frowned. “It has a radio,” she said with an accusing glare. The device, fresh out of the … Continue reading →

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A Voice for Fundamentalism?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

One of life’s minor pleasures is the spectacle of ‘progressives’ calling for Christians to pay more attention to the Bible. Here’s David Sirota writing in Salon: As the Pew Research Center recently discovered, “Most people who agree with the religious … Continue reading →

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Rapture

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

There’s a piece by Mark Oppenheimer in today’s New York Times about the transformation of Blondie’s (ah, those were the days) bassist into a popular writer about religion. Harmless enough stuff, but this passage caught my eye: Mr. Lachman moved … Continue reading →

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