Tag: religion

Instead of opposing one religion to another, we need the conscience and that humorous raised eyebrow, which Powys described, with feminine overtones, as “that withdrawn, quizzical look which conscience, that tough customer, regards as an invasion of its preserves,” to rend the veil in all of our religious temples: cultural/educational, economic and political.

I’m struck at the vanity of those impious folks infatuated with their ability to improve the situation without having first served a long apprenticeship...

What if the nation-state was not the cure but the cause of the wars that we term “religious”?

Any self-respecting Christian should come down a few rungs on his ladder of self-esteem after reading Wendell Berry on the all-too-common view of organized...