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Alan Wolfe looks at several books about freethinking, atheism, and doubt

On tonight, Charlotte Allen takes a look.

Someone wrote to remind me that I’d said I’d have the DVC book for sale today. I forgot. I’ll work on that today, promise, and let you know when the bookstore is updated.

From the Chronicle of Higher Education. The usual suspects trotted out to say their lines, but what’s interesting is the list of planned institutions – some I’d not yet heard of.

The book signing went fine. We were pretty busy in the morning – met a reader of this blog! Hi Tom! – and things slowed down in the morning. I will say this, however – the only customers the store had in the afternoon were people who came specifically to buy my book – including,…

A look from the Toledo paper

No, not for an abuse defense. For a real estate deal gone bad. A Belleville Diocese priest facing a $650,000 judgment over a real estate venture gone bad is now soliciting funds from the general public to pay his mounting legal bills. The diocese is letting parishioners know the effort started without the bishop’s knowledge…

In Boston McLaughlin, second-generation Irish and Spanish-English bilingual, has been at St. Benedict Parish for nearly two decades. It was he who first took the Stations outside to the streets 16 years ago. ”I knew they did it in warmer countries,” McLaughlin tells me. ”It wasn’t any specific ethnic thing; I considered it ordinary pastoral…

Went to church. A Catholic, Kerry marked Palm Sunday and the start of Easter week at the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church where he was given a hero’s welcome. “We’re thankful that there’s going to be a revolution in this country … a new movement,” declared pastor Gregory Groover. ” And we say, God,…

According to this OpinionJournal piece, TPOTC is not the place Anti-Semitism is a real problem in the world today, but it mostly arises from the Muslim world and the political left. It’s easy to attack American Christians, schooled on love and forbearance, who will never requite these attacks with any sort of comparable intensity. It…

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