Becoming Neo-Pascalian: The Second Step Toward a Make-Believe Faith

April 24, 2013 By 4 Comments
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I want to begin this part of the conversation acknowledging a comment to my last post about a sense of need. Nick astutely writes: My big problem with “God shaped hole” arguments is that it seems to me that I would have to accuse an awful lot of people of living in, at the very [...]

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Easter: Tripping Over Joy

April 2, 2013 By 4 Comments
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The Easter season has only just begun. It will go on for another seven weeks, and then it will go on for eternity. This poem, for me at least, captures both its magnificence and its munificence, its great grace and its hilarity. There is a laughter that comes when we are deeply relieved at having [...]

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