Category: Interfaith
An Atheist and God’s Brain
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
Marriage and Interfaith Dialogue
No doubt we are all aware of the outcomes of the collaboration of Republican and Democratic politicians in New York on 24 June 2011 which made New York the sixth state (in the United States) to legali... Read More
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
Interfaith Dialogue in the Pulpit—Proclaiming an Emerging Gospel: A 21st Century Imperative
In this article the author reviews the context of contemporary American Christian experience, which is a thoroughly multi-religious, pluralistic context. The article argues for an approach to Christ... 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
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
Sitting at the Buddha with the Tanna’im
This paper examines the parallels between two ancient ethical texts, the BuddhistDhammapada, and the Jewish,Pirke Avot. Both of these texts offer the reader insights into what is necessary for maintai... 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