Does Humanism need Christianity?
DOES HUMANISM NEED CHRISTIANITY? – LONDON, 13 OCTOBER. Angus Ritchie says it does in his new Theos essay The Case for Christian[…]
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Not In God’s Name
CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL – SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER. Chairing a discussion on Jonathan Sacks’s new book on religion and violence, Not in[…]
ReadDo we need metaphors?
The whole point about metaphors is that some are much better than others. It makes sense to say the world shook when the Berlin Wall fell, not that it danced, slept or cooked. Nietzsche said concepts were “merely the residue of a metaphor” but there is nothing mere about it. Believing words to be metaphorical did not prevent him from choosing his very carefully indeed. We should do the same.
ReadImagining Reality
VIDEO – IMAGINING REALITY. Video of discussion at the How the Light Gets In Festival, with me, Dylan Evans, Jasper Fforde and Eliane Glaser hosting.
ReadDoes an apology matter?
The refusal to apologise can look like a denial that anything was wrong in the first place and that no lessons have been learnt. The point is not to confess the continued presence of the sin or even to take the blame for it.
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