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Shouts & Murmurs

Are You There Margaret? It’s Me, God

You repeatedly asked Me to give you boobs, which I hope you’ve figured out is kind of below My pay grade.
Culture Desk

How Mathematics Changed Me

If one is inclined toward mysteries, mathematics can lead one to the conclusion that behind the veil of life there is a structure and an order.
Shouts & Murmurs

God’s Grant Proposal

I’m writing to request a one-time grant of fifty thousand dollars to aid in the creation of a new bipedal, mostly hairless, fairly bad-smelling mammal.
Books

The Church of Jonathan Franzen

In “Crossroads,” bad decisions and bad faith weigh down the characters—and propel the novel to startling heights.
Shouts & Murmurs

The Seven Days of Creation Under Capitalism

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Then God’s boss asked Him to stay late and make the sky, too.
Books

What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus

Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.
Shouts & Murmurs

Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, as E-mailed by Your Passive-Aggressive Co-Worker

Not to be that guy, and most of this is totally not a big deal, but I just wanted to take a moment to communicate my disappointment with a few things I’ve noticed occurring at the Church lately.
Books

Does Knowing God Just Take Practice?

For both the faithful and the doubtful, the source of religious experience can seem mysterious. One anthropologist explores belief in more mundane terms—as a form of expertise.
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Monday, September 21st

“This usually fixes things.”
Shouts & Murmurs

One-Star Yelp Reviews of Heaven

On Television

Starring Steve Buscemi as God, “Miracle Workers” Is Sappy, Juvenile, and Sharp All at Once

The seven-episode comedy presents a vision of eternity as drudge work and office politics.
Shouts & Murmurs

Commandments of the Lord Who Created Meryl Streep

Do not steal money. Do not steal cattle. Do not steal focus from Amy Adams the way that Meryl did in “Doubt” and “Julie & Julia.”
Daily Comment

Reading Into Albert Einstein’s God Letter

Einstein had what might be called a night-sky theology, a sense of the awesomeness of the universe that even atheists and materialists feel when they gaze up at the Milky Way.
Fiction

The Rise and Rise of Annie Clark

Fiction

The Boarder

Books

Briefly Noted

“God,” “Hitler, My Neighbor,” “Improvement,” and “A State of Freedom.”
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, October 25th

“Bill O’Reilly is mad at me.”
Shouts & Murmurs

God Is Your Superintendent

Amy Davidson Sorkin

Ben Carson Among the Pyramids

Annals of Technology

No, Astrobiology Has Not Made the Case for God