There’s a dark side to this piety about ‘going local’
A decade ago, “This is a local shop for local people” was the catchphrase of a parochial, psychotic couple in[…]
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Warnock on religion
In the latest microphilosophy podcast I talk to Mary Warnock about her latest book, Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics. The interview was recorded live at the Arnolfini Centre as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas.
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ReadHeathen’s Progress 15: You don’t have to be religious to pray … but it helps
Prayer, like many rituals, is something that the religious get some real benefits from that are just lost to us[…]
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