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July 2013

July 05, 2013

The Gospel of Authenticity

In last Saturday’s New York Times, Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster critique the “pursuit of...

July 01, 2013

Politics and the Bible as Narrative

From Oliver O’Donovan’s The Desire of the Nations: If political theologians are to treat ancient...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Faith, Fiction, and Reason

T.M. Luhrmann is a Stanford anthropologist famous for her research on evangelical devotional life, studying...

June 27, 2013

The Summer Pop Culture Found Religion

Behold the summer where pop culture (or at least its high priests) found religion. Two...

June 20, 2013

How Should We Spend Our Goodwill?

The New York Times reports on the controversy over the presence of Christian religious symbols...

June 18, 2013

Unequal Conversation Partners

In a recent post over at NPR, Adam Frank reviews Religion without God, Ronald Dworkin’s...

June 12, 2013

What We Can Learn from Young Atheists

Recently The Atlantic posted an article entitled, “Listening to Young Atheists, Lessons for a Stronger...

May 2013

May 11, 2013

Because Science

In his book The Plot to Kill God, Paul Froese outlines the Soviet Union's unsuccessful...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Reading Recommendation: The Secular Revolution

For decades, accounts of secularization went something like this. As societies modernize, they become...

February 18, 2013

Charles Taylor on the Future of Religion

From A Secular Age: One future, which flows out of mainline secularization theory, sees...