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The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.

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We are all made in the image of God, says Kennedy.
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Peter Gomes distinguishes between hope (a long view) from optimism (the short view).
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No matter where they go after college, young people discover there’s no there there.
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The Russian cosmonauts did not find God up there.
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Science hasn’t found an explanation of spirituality.
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Christianity is not a religion that has been tried and failed.
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If you come up with an easy solution to the text, you’re probably close to the wrong thing.
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Gomes has a question he thinks talented people should ask themselves.
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You think you’re Job? Get off it.
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To be hopeful is to be ultimately realistic in the face of every reason for despair.
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Why is America’s youth turning to religion?
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Jim Lehrer explains his lifelong love for the work of J.D. Salinger, and describes what he would ask in a dream interview with the literary legend.
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Lehrer says we should actually act on our pledges to improve education.
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We are driven by a search for value and meaning.
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Gomes believes we live in a fallen world.
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Unlike the America of his childhood, the country no longer has a shared experience to draw upon.