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June 2016

June 07, 2016

Martin Luther on the Importance of Inviting Death Into Our Presence

From Martin Luther's "A Sermon on Preparing to Die" (from 1519): Death looms so large...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Ancient Sex: “A Call to Arms Against Death”

I just picked up Peter Brown's The Body and Society, which is a fascinating study of sex...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Where Do We Look to Find the Origin of Evil?

"Axis of evil." "That person is evil incarnate!" "There's so much evil in our world..."...

April 04, 2016

For Immortality, is it Enough to be Remembered?

Most of us don't want this life to be all there is. We don't want...

February 2016

February 08, 2016

On the Ambivalence of Believing in Life After Death

Does believing in life after death make this life more precious and valuable or less so?...

February 04, 2016

Is the Resurrection a “Broken Myth”?

Yesterday I posted a response to a reader's rich question about the resurrection: What happens...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

Every Society is a “Religion” and a Stage for Heroism (Becker)

Tomorrow I begin teaching my fall course, Evil, Death, and Alienation (Don't worry, students: I'll...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

8 Books on Death, Evil, and Alienation

I love and hate gathering my book lists for upcoming courses.   One the one...

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