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Divided by faith

From TLS, a review of The New Atheists by Tina Beattie; God's Undertaker by John C. Lennox; The Beginning of All Things by Hans Kung; and From Physicist to Priest: An autobiography by John Polkinghorne. A review of God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by John Lennox. A review of The Power of Faith: Mother Nature's Gift by Jay D. Glass. A review of Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism by Victoria Clark. A review of Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. An article on Damon Linker's weak attack on atheism (and Linker's response). More on Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great. Speeches like Mitt Romney’s confirm the impossibility for an atheist to be elected to national office in this country. Secular Europe’s merits: Mitt Romney’s speech and the emergence of the anti-Darwin Baptist minister Mike Huckabee suggest how estranged the American zeitgeist is from the European. A review of Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe by Benjamin J. Kaplan. A review of The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England by D. Bruce Hindmarsh. From TLS, the gospel according to Henry VIII: The selectivity, conservatism and startlingly personal nature of a bible designed by Henry VIII. A review of Church History of Germany since the Reformation by Johannes Wallmann.