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Easter In last year’s Easter post I talked about the origin of that word, “Easter.”  It is a reference to the direction, east, where the morning sun rises as a metaphor for the resurrection to come.  In the early days of Christianity, new believers understood they were embracing the God of the Jews, and the […]

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Review (Part One): The Experience of God–Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart

This book is a rare find.  Hart eloquently puts forward what is fundamentally wrong with the materialist point of view that lures so many into a blinkered perception of reality. Part One:  “God” The Straw Man Here we consider the first of the theses Hart pursues:  that the new atheist argument against God is a […]

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