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...Lost Gospel is a mystical connectiveness with nature that is based on the belief that nature is indivisible and without secular attachments," Hayden said...
Bennett, though frank and provocative, has a keen sense of marketing and showmanship. While he upholds the value of religious faith, he distinguishes himself from TV evangelists and reaches a larger audience by keeping his discussion of virtues accessible even to secular readers and listeners. Reared an Irish Catholic Democrat in a broken home in Brooklyn, New York, he marries the instincts and grammar of a populist to the convictions of a social conservative. And he blends intellectual sweep with the physical presence of a prizefighter. It makes for quite a package. His speeches shift seamlessly from anecdotes told...
...leader," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "After the May election, a lot of people thought his career would be over and he would retire gracefully." Peres has stayed on, waiting for a split in a fragile Netanyahu coalition that relies on the support of both religious and secular parties. If that coalition fails, Netanyahu may be forced to turn to the Labor Party as a partner, and Peres could become an influential Foreign Minister. His party would be content to celebrate him as an elder statesman. "He's perceived to be a loser," says Beyer. "He's never...
...blamed progress itself. And so, come to think of it, did Melville's possible disciple in this line of thinking, the Unabomber, who was a moral train wreck in his own right. The complaint seems a little simple. It can appeal to a flintstone fundamentalism that argues that materialist secular humanism, with its seductive technological wealth and toys and vices, fosters a godless hubris. But no one except Melville's grandfather thinks Flight 800 fell from the sky because its passengers wanted to travel too fast...
...populist, pro-Islamic politician whose party did not field a single female candidate in the last elections; she is a decidedly secular, right-wing former Prime Minister who got her husband to take her surname. Odd couplings are common in politics, but the union of Necmettin Erbakan and Tansu Ciller is especially curious. Last week Erbakan became the head of the first Islamist-majority coalition government in Turkey since Kemal Ataturk declared it a secular state in 1923. In two years' time, Erbakan is due to hand over power to Ciller and her True Path Party. The deal was ratified...