The Other Jesus

 As I was driving up towards North Carolina, where I find myself this week, I was listening to a show on public radio about aging and death featuring the British gerontologist Aubrey de Grey. This Cambridge-educated scientist is convinced we are no more than thirty years away from defeating aging entirely, from a time when […]

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(from “The Religious Dimensions of the Torture Debate,” The Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life, April 29, 2009, http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=156) 
What does it profit a nation to gain its life, but lose its soul?
That’s what I’m wondering this week as I ponder the results of the new Pew Forum survey on religious attitudes toward torture. As you look at […]

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