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Living Light Interview

October 10, 2011 Books

I’m not sure I qualify as a living light, but the upbeat Christian site Living Light News has a nice interview with me this week.  Nice photo too by Anacleto Rapping: He’s been hailed by Stephen King as “the most original American novelist of crime and suspense …” Two of his books became major motion [...]

Tagged as: Andrew Klavan, christianity, living light news, religion

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God and Baseball: Point to the Sky

October 18, 2010 Culture

Baseball has suffered a lot of indignities over the years – the designated hitter, commercials that add over an hour to playing time, the designated hitter, unions, pitching specialization and, of course, the designated hitter – but it’s still a great game.  I probably should’ve listed the elongated post-season too – another affront to orthodoxy, [...]

Tagged as: baseball, god, playoffs, religion, tcot, yankees

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Media Distortion of the Week

April 7, 2010 politics

I want to be careful here because I do understand there is a scandal of terrible proportions being played out in the  Catholic church and there is some truth in what Peggy Noonan says:  the media actually help the church by exposing what needs exposing.  But Maureen Dowd is simply out of line to declare [...]

Tagged as: new york times, pope benedict, religion

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God-Shaped Hole

March 29, 2010 Culture

As they did in the beginning, Passover and Holy Week coincide this year, and yet not one major film being released for the season has anything whatsoever to do with religion. Nowhere is popular entertainment more bizarrely alienated from the lives of ordinary people than in the matter of God. Why should this be? Let [...]

Tagged as: blind side, christianity, long way home, religion

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God Is Mocked. Not.

February 1, 2010 Culture

I went to see Brit comedian Eddie Izzard perform live this weekend.  He was hilarious; great.  He did one bit illustrating the idea that Latin became a dead language because it was just too complicated.  A Roman legionnaire comes running to tell a centurion that Hannibal and his elephants have crossed the Alps but he [...]

Tagged as: atheism, Eddie Izzard, religion

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Galileo Goes to Jail

January 30, 2010 Culture

I’m disconcerted to find that January’s not even over and I’ve already burned through most of my Christmas books.  Haven’t hit upon anything great so far, but this one – Galileo Goes to Jail – was kind of cool.  It’s from the Harvard University Press, a series of essays by scholars ranging from atheist to [...]

Tagged as: christianity, galileo goes to jail, religion, science

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