On NPR this week, Barbara Bradley Hagerty reported on "the science of spirituality." In a series of five short pieces,…
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Liberal rationalism as superstition
In his New York Times blog, Stanley Fish reviews Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith and Revolution, a book whose indictment of…
An interview with Tisa Wenger
Over at Religion in American History, Paul Harvey interviews Tisa Wenger about her new highly-anticipated book We Have a Religion:…
The end of the university as we know it
In the New York Times, Mark C. Taylor, chairman of the religion department at Columbia, identifies challenges facing higher education…
The stricter the smaller?
At Christianity Today, Mark Galli reviews a new book by Shayne Lee and Phillip Luke Simitiere, entitled Holy Mavericks: Evangelical…
Dinesh D’Souza praises Peter Singer, faintly
At Christianity Today, conservative provocateur Dinesh D'Souza profiles Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer, casting Singer's approach as a "horrifying yet somehow…
A principled pullback?
At the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker suggests that "principled Christians" are becoming increasingly disillusioned not just with the Republican Party…
Evangelicals and the housing bubble
Zubin Jelveh, a New York Times blogger, reports on a dubious IMF study, which draws upon the "Rapture Index" to…
Congregations in the recession
At the Christian Century, John Dart explains why the recession has not hit congregations particularly hard---at least not yet.
David Brooks and E. J. Dionne speak of faith
In an episode of Speaking of Faith titled "Obama's Theologian," David Brooks and E. J. Dionne talked with Krista Tippett…