I believe in a transcendent creator whose self-disclosure is difficult for humanity to grasp and understand properly given the cultural filters through which that revelation ... » Go

I happen to think we can discover in the Bible a God worthy of worship — the God of radically universal love attested to by ... » Go

And, if as most theists would agree, God transcends our finite understanding, wouldn't it be better to define "God" in a way that makes our ... » Go

In The End of Faith, Sam Harris raises equivocation on the meaning of "religion" to a high art, wraps the ambiguity in mellifluous prose, plays ... » Go

Imagine an author who sets out to prove that music glorifies violence but who spends most of the book fixated on gangsta rap and then ... » Go

By "feeling," Schleiermacher didn’t mean some rush of emotion, but rather a kind of primal experience — or, perhaps better, a way of experiencing. He ... » Go

But to say these things requires an account of what I mean by “religion.” Instead of offering his own account, Hitchens’ strategy seems to be ... » Go

The fact is, we use the term “religion” in a variety of ways. And this fact makes it difficult to talk precisely about religion, let ... » Go

Can the fact that there are theists who seem to be intelligent and morally sensitive be explained on the assumption that these theists are exercising ... » Go

It is my conviction that theism and other forms of supernatural religion are born out of a combination of rational insight, profound experiences of a ... » Go