The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that … - Alister E. McGrath

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Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.

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The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

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The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.

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The idea of ‘calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world

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Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

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If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

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The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement. . . has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. . . It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today. . . But then came the First World War. . . What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.

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