Religion Dispatches
“Evangelicalism is a very diverse, broad movement and there are many different expressions. I think, very shortly, there will be an expression of evangelicalism which will be inclusive of LGBT people.”
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Why is religion without religion not radical enough? How does mysticism “shake hands” with atheism? What is the difference between worship and idolatry? Elliot R. Wolfson keeps us up all night thinking (and running for the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy) as he talks to RD on the occasion of the publication of his newest book.
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We taste the bread, we smell the incense; you don’t have to put that down lower because you don’t understand the theological concepts. Don’t feel bad about having an experience involving stained glass windows; that’s not a trivial thing.
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The 2500-year-old idea of the multiverse is a way to sidestep theology: if there are an infinite number of universes that take on all possible parameters throughout eternity, then we don’t have to appeal to a god to explain the bounty or harmony of the world around us.
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What inspired you to write A Restatement of Religion: Swami Vivekananda and the Making of…
Read MoreTen questions for the author of a novel inspired by a landmark Intelligent Design case discusses what it’s like to create a Darwinian blowhard, and more.
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Daniel Goleman is best known as the author of Emotional Intelligence, the title of which…
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Blumenthal’s Goliath is not funny, nor is it very entertaining. It is, for many reasons, often painful to read.
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What inspired you to write Spider in a Tree? I live in Northampton, Massachusetts, across the…
Read MoreA new book of essays on the meaning of Avatar, is a down-in-the-dirt wrestling match between those who resonate with it and those who hate a film that’s been labeled pro-civilization and anti-civilization, pro-science and anti-science, un-American and too American, feminist and misogynistic, leftist and neoconservative, and pagan, atheistic, theistic, and animistic.
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