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As an adolescent, the comedian found comfort, inspiration and fellowship in the nineteenth-century playwright’s work.
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A Mormon tour guide did not appreciate his sly questions.
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The prep-school-educated actor grew up in a country house with gardeners and servants. While his mother was warm and loveable, his forbidding father was more like Sherlock Holmes.
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Actor and comedian Stephen Fry details the positive influence philosophers have had on his life, as well as his journey of understanding both what he believes and why he believes it.
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Making others feel better, finer, and funnier—that’s the sign of “character and quality.”
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A conversation with the British comedian, author, actor and filmmaker.
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Luke Timothy Johnson explains how many secular phenomena—from political campaigns to college football—can have a religious character.
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New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson explores whether the ways in which Christians practice their faith might be more important than the content of their beliefs.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson reviews New Testament writers, including Paul, and whether their condemnation of paganism was a product of their time.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson explores the impact of paganism and early Christianity on today’s Christians.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson examines how early Christian polemic caricatured pagans and describes the real relationship between Greco-Roman religion and early Christianity.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson argues that Christianity over time came to resemble the broad range of pagan/gentile religions, but that Judaism pulled back from its involvement with Hellenism.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson examines the influence of paganism on Christianity.
A boom in the demand for illegal motorbikes in Gaza is fuelling a dangerous – and sometimes deadly – smuggling trade orchestrated via complex tunnels all the way from Egypt.
The Independent talks to George Bush about the “surreal afterlife” of being an ex-American president, dog poop and being mistaken for himself.
Displeased Indonesians have been venting via Facebook outraged that a statue of a young Obama, “who is not an Indonesian national hero”, has been installed in a Jakarta park.
Some of the terrorism suspects being held at the U.S naval base Guantanimo Bay in Cuba will be transferred to Illinois state prison, a government official has said.
The soot emitted when fossil fuels are burned, known as “black carbon”, could have a bigger impact on climate in some parts of the world than greenhouse gases, new research reveals.
Australians are outraged at government plans to censor the internet after trials found that filtering a blacklist of banned sites didn’t slow the web down.
Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” button has mystified users by leading to an unexplained countdown clock – with no obvious purpose…