Daily Archives: January 19, 2009

Quote of the Day

James Baldwin, in his short story, “Sonny’s Blues” (1957): [W]hile the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to … Continue reading

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Seeing the Decline of Religion with the Wide Lens

Heather Mac Donald of SecularRight.org looks past the up and down ticks of contemporary Gallup polls that gauge respondants’ self-reported religiosity, and looks instead at the larger historical trends, which show that religion in the Western world is in a slow, but thoroughly detectable decline: … Continue reading

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