Tag: Charles Taylor
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The Wonder of It All
It’s 7530 Annus Mundi, according to the calendar adopted by Roman Christendom (otherwise known as the Byzantine Empire). Every method of measuring time must have a starting point—a year zero—and for Eastern Christians it was the year in which the world was created, calculated using the historical markers and lifespans documented in the Septuagint. Today,…
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Forging an Identity
As Christmas Eve approaches, the usual pundits have appeared claiming that our holy day is nothing more than a repackaged pagan bacchanalia. Such assertions are, of course, easily dismissed by those willing to do a little research. But what’s more intriguing is the growing desire to rehabilitate paganism in the first place. Some want to…
Prudence & Piety 