The Immanent Frame, in cooperation with the award-winning religion magazine Killing the Buddha, is launching Frequencies, a project curated by Kathryn…
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Representing the unrepresented
The religiously “unaffiliated”---atheists, agnostics, nonconformists, the unchurched and the uncertain---are underrepresented in Congress, notes Richard Blow today in The New…
The spiritual and the scholarly
Just as it is helpful for universities to think through constitutional aspects of federalism within the context of university governance,…
More than politics: An interview with Charles Villa-Vicencio
As National Research Director for the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Charles Villa-Vicencio was intimately involved in the historic…
Paranormal activity
Mark Oppenheimer, of The New York Times, profiles Jeffrey Kripal, author of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion…
The spiritual politics of healing
Debates regarding health care have struck at the core of social and political imaginaries of what it means for both…
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part II)
Soon after reading Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, I turned to Courtney Bender’s The New Metaphysicals. It is…
Bron Taylor at the New York Open Center
Next Thursday, September 23, at 8:00 PM, Bron Taylor will discuss Dark Green Religion: Nature, Spirituality and the Planetary Future…
The sounds of science
As previous posts about The New Metaphysicals have illustrated, Courtney Bender’s spiritual but not religious subjects pose a number of…
A spiritual and moral approach to capitalism and aid
Speaking of Faith's Krista Tippett interviews Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, on the ethics of aid…