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On Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Six Questions for Eric Metaxas

By Scott Horton — 2010

Eric Metaxas, whose best-selling biography of William Wilberforce, Amazing Grace, provided the framework for an important motion picture, is now out with a thick review of the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian who played a key role in one of the attempts to kill Adolf Hitler. I put six questions to Metaxas about Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.

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Religious Faith Can Lead to Positive Mental Benefits, Writes Stanford Anthropologist

Creating a relationship with a supernatural other takes effort that can lead to meaningful change

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Sandra Feder
2020
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Exclusive Interview: 'Reincarnation' Isn't Important, Says the Dalai Lama

"I can only be concerned about this life; the next is not my concern. What is important are the teachings, the institution of Dalai Lama comes after that. The teachings of the Buddha are important. If reincarnation was so important, then why did the Buddha not have a reincarnation?"

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Namrata Biji Ahuja/Mcleodganj
2019
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The Moral Landscape: Thinking About Human Values in Universal Terms

If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world—and there clearly are—then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

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Sam Harris
2010
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Liberalism and Religion – We Should Talk

Liberalism’s objections to mythic forms do not apply to formless awareness. Thus liberalism and authentic spirituality can walk hand in hand.

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Ken Wilber
1999
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