PREVIEW
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Guests heard on Volume 57
John Hare, author of Why Bother Being Good? The Place of God in the Moral Life, on why morality makes sense only on Christian grounds
Clifford Putney, author of Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920, on “muscular Christianity” and the origins of the YMCA (Friday Feature available)
Andrei S. Markovits, co-author of Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism, on modernity, sports, and soccer in America (Friday Feature available)
Wilmer Mills, author of Light for the Orphans, on time, narrative, and the sequences of life (Archive Feature available)
Steve Bruce, author of God Is Dead: Secularization in the West, on diversity, individualism, secularization, and the atrophy of faith
Colleen Carroll, author of The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, on unheralded movement of young adults back into traditional churches
Michael Budde & Robert Brimlow, authors of Christianity Incorporated: How Big Business Is Buying the Church, on why Christianity should seem strange (Friday Feature available)
Bonus: Steve Bruce, on why rational choice theory doesn’t apply to religion
Bonus: Wilmer Mills, on two of his poems
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