Ross Douthat, who has written opinion columns for the New York Times since 2009, is used to writing for a skeptical readership. A conservative Catholic, he occupies a unique, or at least very unusual, spot in American letters: He is a religious man writing to a generally non-religious audience. His new book is Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, published by Zondervan, and it, too, is written largely with the agnostic or full-on atheist in mind. Religious people, though, will also benefit from the book (as I certainly did). Douthat’s book is not intended as a defense of Christianity in particular but a nudge toward religious belief in general, and he uses several supporting pillars, composed in his calm, intelligent prose, to make the case that religious belief is reasonable. Darwinism Read More ›
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