I've been at this blog over a decade, but this year I've needed to slow down even more than the past couple of years. My tendoni...

As the token Catholic/ conservative columnist for the NY Times, Ross Douthat, is a journalist I've enjoyed reading even when much of th...

Three approaches to the study of religion tend to dominate. Surveys of tradition exemplified by Huston Smith, theories such as those pionee...

Think of Aristotle's "flourishing" as our human fulfillment. That aligns well with Steven Pinker's argument addressing ...

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, October 2015. 736 pages. $39.95. Hardcover. ISBN 9780691157788.   For other fo...

I read this right after David Bentley Hart's The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss . That formidable study in an endnote d...

Today, my wife's marching for a second year downtown with hundreds of thousands of Angelenos, mostly women, with fewer children, dogs,...

I found out about David Bentley Hart from a review of his 2018 translation into blunt English of the clunky Greek often expressed in the ...

I'd always relegated Robert Coover to the ranks of John Barth and Donald Barthelme, as briefly influential arch peddlers of irony, lust...

Neither op-ed pieces nor arcane articles (at least in editorial theory), these appeared sponsored by the New York Times circa 2010-15. The...

The "New Atheists" get it wrong about religious perpetuation, argues this philosopher, an atheist himself. Tim Crane rejects ba...