Terrance Klein

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The British philosopher Gillian Rose spent her brief life arguing against a basic presumption of modern life one that goes something like this now that almost everyone can be heard and now that we realize how profoundly we disagree about the most important aspects and values in life let rsquo s

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Maps have border lines The earth itself does not Human life demands drawing boundaries but God rsquo s life knows none While we live we constantly claim what we consider to be our own and we define ourselves both by who we are mdash and who we are not If religion were entirely divinely w

Historian David McCullough rsquo s newest offering The Greater Journey Americans in Paris includes a roadside stop between harbor and metropolis in Rouen to see its cathedral He writes The Americans had never beheld anything remotely comparable It was their first encounter with a Gothic ma