The Galileo story is presented as a narrative of the church denying science. But that implies that science is a single, monolithic worldview.
Part history, part science fiction, the Galileo story is less a legend than a myth.
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Your guide to intelligent, nonviolent video games
Roger Ebert once said that “video games can never be art.” It is hard to make that case in 2020.
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Why ‘feeling right’ on race is not—and has never been—enough
In 1862, Harriet Beecher Stowe made feeling right on race easy, righteous and comfortable, all at once. We face the same trap today.
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I had Covid-19. Ballet renewed my faith in the human body.
To a world in upheaval, ballet is an emblem of calmer times.
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Reading James Baldwin can help heal the wounds of racial division
Baldwin’s words explore what hatred can do not only to society at large but to the individual who bears it.
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Jason Isbell’s ‘Reunions’ begs us to listen differently
Jason Isbell’s music dares us to practice intentional, engaged listening precisely because that is what Isbell himself is bringing to it.
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What we lost when Notre-Dame de Paris caught fire
What did Notre-Dame mean? What did it feel like to step into it in the Middle Ages?
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When pitchers and batters become ministers and deacons
Baseball is not a religion, but plenty of its players find their real vocation after retirement.
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Gen-X women can’t ‘have it all’ after all
Generation X came of age in a culture awash in dreams of women’s perpetual and idealized childhood being sold as feminist empowerment.
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Fr. James Martin’s 1997 review of ‘Nothing Sacred’
“Nothing Sacred” is the rare television show that deals with American Catholicism in an intelligent, adult manner.