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Poet Auden Abandons Humanism

John Yenchko tells how W. H. Auden, a 20th-century Pulitzer Prize winning poet, playwright, and literary critic was converted:

Auden saw a movie in 1940 ...

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Our Relationship to Nature

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really in this proposition: that Nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you ...


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Christianity and Humanism

During construction of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, president Charles Eliot invited psychologist and philosopher William James to suggest a suitable ...


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Inconvenient Rapture?

[Our] striving after wind is motivated by a sinister desire to be independent of God, free from the frightening vulnerability of His watch-care. If we ...


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Firing God

Of all the illusions and fantasies and farces of human history, the biggest mirage of all is what we call progress. Just because we split the atom and ...


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Of Giants and Infants

We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. ... Ours is a world ...


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A Humanist's Lament

Not long before she died in 1988, in a moment of surprising candour on television, Marghanita Laski, one of our best-known secular humanists and novelists, ...


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Limited Greatness of the Soul

For the soul is only like God, not equal to him. This is a degree of nearness to him, but it is only a degree. ... Thus the rational soul may ever glory ...


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The Necessity of Regeneration

Without regeneration, all human efforts to improve the quality of life (mental or physical) are limited.


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Spiritual Poverty of the West

The spiritual poverty of the Western world is much greater than the physical poverty of our people. You in the West have millions of people who suffer ...


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