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New book links the decline of religious authority to the end of empathy
By Yonat Shimron — October 6, 2020
(RNS) — John Compton’s ‘The End of Empathy’ shows how the collapse of religious authority in the 1960s led Christians to evangelical megachurches that resist any efforts at social reform.
Religious art discovered alive!
By Martin E. Marty — February 2, 2017
As S. Brent Plate finds: "Dig around in art, and we find religion. Dig around in religion, and we find art."
Is work a punishment from God?
By Daniel Burke — August 30, 2012
(RNS) On the first Monday of September, America honors working stiffs by taking a paid day off. But does Labor Day celebrate an enterprise that God invented as a punishment? By Daniel Burke.
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