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
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
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
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
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
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
What do qualitative research, legal testimony, and sunlight shot through stained glass have in common? All of these benefit from, even demand, insider perspectives....Read More
My friend Jen is a rabbinical student. Her rabbinical school advises students not to shout their future vocation from the rooftops in delicate settings, such as airplanes, thanks to the unfortunate re...Read More
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the organized atheist, humanist, skeptic and freethought movements about the potential benefits and drawbacks of interfaith work. Over at Patheos, the Execut...Read More
\”Book of John\” by Jenn Lindsay (YouTube link) Your book of John, it feels so wrong Each verse I read is damning me I try to find my way inside But it’s not my answer and anyone who say...Read More