“Christopher Hitchens Has Died, Doug Wilson Reflects”
Douglas Wilson, who participated in a series of debates with Hitchens in 2007, reflected on the death with an essay posted by Christianity Today.
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“Remembering Christopher Hitchens”
Read Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s remembrance of Christopher Hitchens at The Forward.
“Christopher Hitchens: A humanist at heart”
Read Washington Post columnist and former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson’s tribute to Christopher Hitchens written more than a year before Hitchens’ death.
“Hitchens on his way”
Read a column at the Spiritual Politics blog by Mark Silk about Christopher Hitchens. Silk writes about Hitchens as “America’s favorite atheist” and about the affection so many people of faith had for him.
“The Believer’s Atheist”
Read a column by New York Times op-ed writer Ross Douthat reflecting on Christopher Hitchens’ life.
David Keck
The Rev. David Keck is a Presbyterian minister who teaches pastoral education at Duke University. He is the author of Forgetting Whose We Are: Alzheimer’s Disease and the Love of God. He is also pastor at Northgate Presbyterian Church in Durham, N.C.
“The Tenth Man”
At The Tablet, the online Jewish periodical, Marc Tracy explores how Christopher Hitchens’ late-in-life discovery of his Jewish roots affected his writing.
“My Take: An evangelical remembers his friend Hitchens”
Read a column at CNN.com by Larry Alex Taunton, a Christian apologist and head of the Fixed Point Foundation who frequently debated Christopher Hitchens on religion. Taunton reflects on Hitchens’ death.
“Could Christopher Hitchens be in heaven?”
Read an essay by Russell D. Moore, dean of the school of theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary reflecting on Christopher Hitchens’ death.