If Boston’s complaint was once no taxation without representation, today it might be no rent increase without a corresponding Consumer Price Index hike. Case in point: The Consumer Price Index incre...Read More
How can we make sure that we are not simply protecting ourselves when we discuss our deepest beliefs, and are in fact evaluating the evidence and reasons with clear eyes? How can we ensure that our mo...Read More
Book Review “God’s Brain” by Lionel Tiger and Michael McGuire Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2010 It is always interesting to see how those within a scientific sub-discipline speak about relig...Read More
Article first published as How Does It Feel to Be A Question? on Blogcritics. I wrote recently that young Baha’is in Iran are denied the experience of graduating from college taken for granted b...Read More
Article first published as Beyond Post-Racialism on Blogcritics. I recently watched a video of Ruha Benjamin, a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Boston University. In this video,...Read More
Book Review “In The Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred,” New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, 2010 Sam Keen Sam Keen, author of numerous books on religion and philosophy, as well as ...Read More
On December 14, 2004 Alabama Judge Ashley McKathan stepped into court adorned by a judicial robe embroidered with the Ten Commandments. Stitched in large print, the Biblical statements were legible ...Read More
How are believers living in a postmodern world to make sense of premodern Scriptures? Are the caustic culture wars the inevitable outcome of belief systems, or is there a way that people with differen...Read More
I am not this, consumed by flame; I am not that, washed in water; I am not that which drew air, nor am I that which walked upon the earth. I am the earth, I am the air and I am the water. I am the fir...Read More
Article first published as Not Free to Learn on Blogcritics. This time of year in America is the graduation season. Thousands of young people march to the sounds of Pomp and Circumstance and receive t...Read More