When the City University of New York's Graduate Center decided to convene a session of its Great Issues Forum around…
The varieties of unbelief and the ghost of Richard Dawkins
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Excerpts from 36 Arguments for God: a work of fiction
At Edge, John Brockman introduces excerpts from Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's forthcoming 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: a work…
Life after past evil: An interview with Daniel Philpott
Professor Daniel Philpott is a leading theorist of global politics and religion at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of…
The philosopher-citizen
Jürgen Habermas is one of the most prominent philosophers on the global scene of the last half century. His work…
Spiritual machines: An interview with John Lardas Modern
John Lardas Modern, an assistant professor of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College, draws on Beat poets, phrenologists, prison…
Obama’s living virtues
Obama's list of virtues comes in pairs, and the pairings are mutually illuminating. I will, though, examine them not in…
“Out of many, one”
That devotion to the theme "E Pluribus Unum," "out of many, one," is among the things that are old in…
“These things are old”: A new discussion series at
The Immanent Frame
Consider these words from the President's Inaugural Address: Our challenges may be new, the instruments with which we meet them…
Wolterstorff’s Bible-as-“frame”
In short, I agree with Wolterstorff that, while there is no theory in this extremely diverse array of biblical texts,…
“Bob and weave”: A response to Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff's calm, careful, humble response to my posts might make me look like an overly pugilistic polemicist. But I…