Search Results for: The Believer

Is That All There Is?

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These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they are not valid questions because it has already answered them; atheism assumes that they are not valid questions because it cannot answer them. But as one gets older, and parents and peers begin to die, and the obituaries in the newspaper are no longer missives from a faraway place but local letters, and one’s own projects seem ever more pointless and ephemeral, such moments of terror and incomprehension seem more frequent and more piercing, and, I find, as likely to arise in the middle of the day as the night.

Author: James Wood
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Aug 15, 2011
Length: 14 minutes (3,706 words)

Did Christianity Cause the Crash?

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America’s mainstream religious denominations used to teach the faithful that they would be rewarded in the afterlife. But over the past generation, a different strain of Christian faith has proliferated—one that promises to make believers rich in the here and now.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 45 minutes (11,337 words)

The Zappos Way of Managing

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How Tony Hsieh uses relentless innovation, stellar customer service, and a staff of believers to make Zappos.com an e-commerce juggernaut — and one of the most blissed-out businesses in America

Source: Inc.
Published: May 1, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,591 words)