God’s Slow Death
Three atheists argue for reason in the face of faith
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Chaim and the Great Time Elevator
Oscar-nominated actor Chaim Topol is the narrator of the Time Elevator, an amusement ride that takes visitors through 3,000 years of Jerusalem’s history in just under thirty minutes. / Image …
Read MoreA Mass for Romero
Liberation theology
in El Salvador
The Wealth of Shamans
Ghosta, a shaman in rural Mongolia, sitting in his ortz (left). Byambadorj, Ghosta’s more successful urban counterpart, in his ger (right). / Photos by Allan Coukell hovsgol province/ulaan baatar—On a …
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‘Til Decree Do Us Part
The Catholic Church holds traditional marriage sacred, but it’s handing out annulments by the thousands
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Burning Man
Books discussed in this essay An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 320 pp., $36 Buddha by Karen Armstrong Penguin 205 …
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Samson and Delilah
Samson’s father was an Israelite named Manoah. Manoah was an intellectual and a man of peace. He believed the troubles between his people and the Philistines could be solved through …
Read MoreTruth and Reconciliation in Montreal
The Memorial Room at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre / Photograph by Pierre St.Jacques, courtesy of the MHMC montreal — Three years ago, on a day in October, Ann Ungar …
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Sex and the Holy See
Talking dirty in Vatican City
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The Rebuilder
How to move a mosque, a temple, and several ancient churches from Kerala, India, to the Sanguenays
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