Discussions of the secular can often be peculiarly remote. Whenever secularism is imagined as unbelief, or political neutrality, or an…
The ruse of “secular humanism”
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Mind sciences and religious change in America
Like others in this discussion, I'm not sure that recent neurological studies will dramatically change contemporary religious belief or practice,…
Psychoanalysis as spirituality
What are our moral and spiritual sources? In his magnificent and magnanimous recent book, A Secular Age, Charles Taylor investigates…
The evangelical complexion
Just who are America's evangelicals? Conventional wisdom says that evangelical Protestantism is a white-bread, white people's religion. The movement's leading…
Evangelicals and the relational self in Venezuela
Anglophone scholars have long struggled to find a terminology with which to study non-Catholic Christianity in Latin America. We are…
“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition?
The recent California court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage has elicited a new round of warnings about the threats…
The confession forum
A funny thing happened on the way to last Sunday’s Compassion Forum: the politics of religion gave way to the…
Equal opportunity criticism (affirmative faction)
Heidegger did not need to point out (but he did) that God occupies a hegemonic place as the figure of…
Good ol’ time American politics?
Citizens responding to the current electoral climate of Christian agonistics – if they care at all about the significance and…
The burden of the great divide
With the prevalence of voices casting doubts and aspersions on the so-called secularization thesis, we might imagine that the familiar…