One of the acute paradoxes afflicting conscious human life is the awareness of death. The paradox reaches crisis when one fully realizes that death cannot be experienced — it occurs outside of experience, and we therefore lack any frame of reference for it.
The intense weirdness of death has of course captivated many great thinkers and [...]
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In a competitive religious marketplace, producers are becoming increasingly savvy and perhaps even post-modern. Although some old-timey producers bemoan this commercial development, others are embracing it.
Over at Rupert Murdoch’s transformative Wall Street Journal, the 20-something Brett McCracken churlishly warns his cohort about the “Perils of Hipster Christianity,” and discusses some of the uncool ways in [...]
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