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...notes that unlike Christmas or birthday presents, these gifts reflect not only taste and affection "but your degree of commitment as well." Experts argue over subtexts: Is giving lingerie a turn-on or just tacky? Restaurants sweeten the menu and hike the prices; Christian websites offer valentine messages from God. You can buy a heart-shaped potato on eBay. It comes...
...titular issue in Bart Ehrman's book God's Problem (HarperOne; 304 pages) haunts him. Once a Baptist pastor, Ehrman recounts how trying to unravel the ferocious conundrum--of a kind, all-powerful deity who also allows suffering--undid his faith. Since then, as a religion professor and best-selling author (2005's Misquoting Jesus), he has knowledgeably subverted his old beliefs. Here his biblical expertise is a help and a hindrance, since his conceit is to examine only explanations of suffering that appear in Scripture. As Ehrman takes issue with pain--portrayed as punishment for sin (in Genesis...
...most concerned with the men who were buried under cracker boxes scrawled with the name “Unknown,” if they were even buried at all. The work of interring, marking, and mourning the dead changed the way Americans approached politics, culture, and God. The war, Faust argues, popularized America’s two greatest products: sentimentality and irony. Her research relies on soldiers’ letters culled from archives around the country. By attaching these voices to names, Faust defines each one’s individuality and grants her subjects intimacy and dignity. The effect...
...that hasn’t been done before.YP: It hasn’t? Really now, is that sarcasm or are you being serious? There hasn’t ever been a comedy making fun of that. It’s always been like, “Oh my God, let’s attack Michael Vick as a person,” but there isn’t anyone making any jokes about it. It’s something fresh.RR: Okay. The strike has been going on twelve weeks. Too long?YP: Honestly, yes, it’s been...
...senior cleric in the Church of England and a major player in the strife-riven global Anglican Communion; as a much-read theologian and Biblical scholar he has taught at Cambridge and is a hero to conservative Christians worldwide for his 2003 book The Resurrection of the Son of God, which argued forcefully for a literal interpretation of that event...