Almost every home has one. Whether it’s a dilapidated strip of wood in the midst of a small one-room shack in the hills of Chiapas,

When I first read the Dawkins/Harris/Hitchens “new atheist” argument–that all religions are “dangerous” (as well as false)–I thought: these guys are ill-informed. To counter their

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  Over the next several issues, Perspectives will be presenting “church reviews.” These reviews are intended to give a glimpse into what is happening in

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Editor’s Note: The first part of this article appeared in the May 2009 edition of Perspectives. In this second part Roy Anker picks up where