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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

A review of Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2009). At the end of the Monty Python movie, The Life of Brian, Brian is sentenced to death … Continue reading

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The Uncertain Believer

A review of Edward Correia, The Uncertain Believer: Reconciling God and Science (June 2009) There are a lot of books aiming to reconcile all or part of science with all or part of religion. Thus, when I picked up Edward … Continue reading

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Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead

A review of Peter Manseau, Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead (Henry Holt and Co., 2009) What would possess people from all walks of life to marvel at and venerate leathery tongues, detached toes, bone fragments, … Continue reading

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Owen’s Universe

Cover of God’s Universe A Review of Owen Gingerich, God’s Universe (Harvard, 2006). Dr. Owen Gingerich is a retired Harvard professor of Astronomy and the History of Science. He is widely recognized as an authority on both the astronomers Johannes … Continue reading

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