The Other Journal continues its long-running series engaging atheism, the latest of which is the first of three parts of an interview with Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor. Taylor recently wrote a massive book called A Secular Age (which I plan to read very soon) which has basically redefined the subject of secularism in the West. […]
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There’s an interesting new site out there called Dear God which is a simple collection of (often anonymous) submitted prayers. It’s kind of like Post Secret, but more healthy (in my opinion). Here’s the blurb:
Dear God is a global project for people around the world to share their innermost hopes - and fears - through prayer.
It doesn’t […]
As I re-read it for my thesis, I must say that Jack Caputo’s On Religion has to rank among my favorite few books that I’ve read in quite some time. Caputo brilliantly unpacks how Nietzsche’s perspectivism has had some unexpected consequences:
…what no one saw coming was the way the Nietzschean critique undoes the modernist critique of […]
There’s a new blog called The Immanent Frame featuring some heavyweight scholars talking about “secularism, religion and the public sphere.” They are kicking things off by talking about Charles Taylor’s new book “A Secular Age” (including a post by Taylor himself) which examines the origins of secularism and discusses how secularism has never meant the […]
I just started reading Jack Caputo’s little book On Religion. It has what must be the best opening section of any book I’ve read for quite some time! After saying that “religion” in the singular means nothing, he lets loose:
By religion, therefore, let me stipulate, I mean something simple, open-ended, and old-fashioned, namely, the love of […]
Hitchens vs Hitchens | the Daily Mail
Christopher Hitchens is the author of the latest atheist salvo called “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.” I have not read it, so I am certainly not qualified to comment on it. All I can say is that Christians seem to be saying that it is of a […]
