In line with its professed 2010 funding priority of "Finding Free Will," the John Templeton Foundation has just awarded $4.4…
$4.4 million for free will
theology
Haiti and religion
Across the religion blogosphere, some of the most visible discussions of the Haitian earthquake have focused on two topics: Vodou…
Taking the high road in Haiti
Hearkening back to the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and its reverberations in Euro-American culture, Paula Cooey reviews some of…
Schillebeeckx passes
In The New York Times, Peter Steinfels eulogizes Edward Schillebeeckx—(pronounced SKIL-uh-bakes)—one of the architects of the Second Vatican Council, which…
Mary Daly’s passing
The pioneering, post-Catholic feminist theologian Mary Daly died on January 3rd at the age of 81.
Sacred disorder
At the visually striking Triple Canopy, Nathan Schneider discourses on the devolution of theology into---and, some might say, its eventual…
Rock and theology
At the Rock and Theology blog, scholars explore "the relationship between ’secular’ rock and ’sacred’ theology, and related matters of…
Age of spirit: An interview with Harvey Cox
In September, Harvey Cox retired after 44 years of teaching at Harvard Divinity School. Retirement, however, has not slowed him…
The Niebuhr connection: Obama’s deep pragmatism
One of the most important elements of Obama's pragmatism is the sense that "hope" can only be "realistic" if it…
Obama as public theologian: Old wine in new wineskins
Although comparisons between Obama and Lincoln are surely overstated---our current president has not yet shown either the rhetorical or intellectual…