...My goal was to write a series of seemingly unconnected vignettes, which would ultimately connect to a point and work in the number “42.” Inspired by recent resignation letters from...
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Notes from the field
The wisdom of crowds
by Justin Reynolds...might specifically endorse this line of reasoning. But the numbers indicate a surprising alignment between popular opinion and recent scholarly thinking. As readers of this blog are well aware, a...
The politics of spirituality
I hope you like circles
by Kerry Mitchell...categories, a number of respondents found spiritual significance without reference to a creator, focusing more closely on the perceptual and perspectival shifts that park experience evoked. Here references to God...
here & there
Neuroscience and free will
by Taline Cox...tackle an age-old question, do we make our own decisions, or does something else decide for us? The articles were written in the context of a number of recent publications...
Essays
Odd to each other
by Tanya Marie Luhrmann...and then asking “We?”—is that after I published that column on tongues, a number of Jews wrote to me, with thanks, to say that the column taught them that when...
here & there
Pope Benedict on love and capitalism
by Nathan Schneider...and timeless, atomized desire.” The only way to interrupt this countdown, he suggests, is for all of us to pattern our actions on divine love. A number of intellectuals—ranging from...
Spirit in the Dark 
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M. Cooper Harriss
Don’t play that song, Nathan Scott
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M. Cooper Harriss
...and via Ellison, Scott made the unseen seen. Scott’s own present-tense invisibility owes to a number of issues, the most central of which—a race problem—stems from the perceived limits of...
Deathless questions and other interviews
Making compassion cool: An interview with Karen Armstrong
by Nathan Schneider...the internal politics of organized religions. NS: What about atheism, which you take on in your latest book, or the growing number of people who identify as ‘not religious’? Can...
Secularity and the liberal arts
Yearning, yawning, and resisting
by Timothy Clydesdale...convergences or to the crumbling of secularization theory. There is, to be sure, a ripening for this conversation which I have seen firsthand on a number of campuses, but there...