Posts Tagged ‘ charity ’

Ross Douthat’s NY Times Op-Ed: “A Tough Season for Believers”

December 20, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt from Ross Douthat’s NYT Op-Ed:

Happily, for those who need a last-minute gift for the anxious Christian in their life, the year just past featured two thick, impressive books that wrestle with exactly these complexities. [The complexities…

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WSJ: Putnam and Campbell on “Charity’s Religious Edge”

December 10, 2010
By tomsander

Flickr photo by Marcio Cabral De Moura

American Grace co-authors Robert Putnam and David Campbell have an Op-Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal.  Here is an excerpt:

Along with jobs and 401(k)s, a major casualty of the Great Recession …

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The TIMES: American Grace shows religious worship to be mortar of society

November 10, 2010
By tomsander

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Jonathan Sacks Credo, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (UK) writes in a column in the TIMES that Putnam and Campbell have unearthed “fascinating” and “path-breaking” evidence on the power of…

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