Category: Challenges
How Does It Feel to Be a Question?
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
Beyond Post-racialism
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
An Atheist and Sam Keen’s New Book
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
“Balancing Judgment: The Effects of Religion in U.S. Courtrooms,” By Eve Turow
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
Recommended Summer Reading: “Sex, Mom, and God”
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
Svaha: On Giving Up My Father
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
Not Free To Learn
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
Privilege vs. Pluralism: On A.C. Grayling’s New College of the Humanities
Prominent atheist A.C. Grayling and some other well-known academics (including Richard Dawkins) have recently announced plans to set up a private college in London called the New College of the Humani... Read More