The Commons

Public reflection, unhurried.

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A secular defense of ritual

I am an agnostic who lights a candle every Friday evening. I do not believe, in any metaphysically-committed sense, that the candle does anything. It is paraffin. It burns. I have checked. And yet I find, after eleven...

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