Soon after reading Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, I turned to Courtney Bender’s The New Metaphysicals. It is…
The sun shone fiercely through the window at Starbucks (Part II)
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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…
I hope you like circles
Perceptions of the environment, however intensively managed that environment may in fact be, turn into experiences of nature, self, and…
Who are the “spiritual but not religious”?
Who are the Americans who identify as “spiritual but not religious”? What unifying characteristics, qualities, and beliefs might they share?…
Peter Berger on multilateral globalization
Globalization is not defined by one-way Westernization, argues Peter Berger in his new blog at The American Interest Online. Rather,…
“The Animated Avadhuta”
Trent Gilliss, senior editor of Speaking of Faith, shares the thought-provoking and beautifully drawn short "The Animated Avadhuta."
Religion, spirituality, and the sexual scandal
Religion and the sex scandal are still closely linked, though the targets of public outrage have morphed: it is often…
Civil earth religion versus religious nationalism
My contribution to these discussions seeks to expand the analytical horizon of the foregoing discussion of civil religion both chronologically…