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Weekly Links: Atheism, Emergence and a New God
My links for this week--articles I noticed and thought were worth sharing. This week is heavy on atheism, but at the end, we also have a new kind of religious sensibility, so perhaps it balances...
Serious Thoughts about Something and Nothing
There is an interview over on Sam Harris’s blog that is worth checking out. It’s with physicist Lawrence Krauss about his new book on why there is something rather than nothing. The exchange is...
The Economist takes on God
Came across this article on religion from the Economist. The good god guide One theory of the origin of religion is that it underpins the extraordinary capacity for collaboration that led to the...
My Mind Is Like My Mother
This is an article I wrote many years ago that still has a lot of relevance. My mother has since passed, and she always loved it. Happy to share it again. I recently finished a ten-day meditation...
What Is an Evolutionary?
“If you wish to converse with me,” the French philosopher Voltaire is said to have remarked, “define your terms.” Since I am about to publish a book titled with what is essentially a new...
Evolutionary Psychology Under Attack?
The war over evolutionary psychology seems to be escalating these days. And from the pages of The Nation to a recent article in Newsweek, evolutionary psychology, once the darling of pop media,...
My latest blog on the apocalypse…and evolution
May 21st. Apocalypse now. The rapture has come and gone. At least that’s the story as told by the latest Christian end-times believers who think that the world is coming to an end—oh, a few days...
If Darwin Prayed
It was bound to happen. Evolutionary spirituality was bound to radically transform forms of scripture and liturgy as well as create new forms of worship. And the former is exactly what Christian...