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Oct 31, 2016 — Robert Wright & Pamela Cooper-White
Bob and Pam team up to analyze the mind of Trump
Inside the mind of a narcissist
Narcissists are made not born
Psychoanalyzing Trumpism
A moment of compassion for Trump
Jan 19, 2016 — Robert Wright, Roger Haight & Paul Knitter
Jesus, Buddha, Roger and Paul: friends in conversation
How do you say “nirvana” in Christian?
The perennial philosophy
Religious pluralism as a political imperative
Why Paul will not live for eternity (and Roger will)
When Christian mysticism feels pretty Buddhist
Jan 4, 2016 — Robert Wright & David Kyuman Kim
What is Confucianism?
Living with both a Confucian and a Christian identity
Wisdom accumulates slowly
The power (and difficulty) of radical love
Melancholic freedom and existential angst
Finding and losing meaning in the scientific age
Dec 12, 2015 — Robert Wright & Pamela Cooper-White
Clergy as front-line therapists for parishioners
Personal guilt about God’s judgment
Using faith to counter a traumatic religious upbringing
Neoliberal capitalism and its discontents
A psychological reading of the Christian Trinity
Are humans making spiritual progress?
Nov 23, 2015 — Robert Wright & David Carr
How personal trauma inspired David’s book on trauma and the Bible
Ancient Israel’s transition from polytheism to “monolatry”
The Babylonian exile and the birth of Abrahamic monotheism
The link between trauma and God’s covenant with Israel
Why the crucifixion of Jesus shocked his followers
Why have Biblical texts survived?
Nov 20, 2015 — Robert Wright & Paul Knitter
A Catholic questions whether Jesus is the “one and only savior”
How Paul integrates Buddhism and Christianity
Paul: Jesus, like the Buddha, “fully woke up”
How “interbeing” leads to loving thy neighbor
Meditation, the Eucharist, and the feeling that “all is well”
Paul: Peace in the world starts with peace within yourself
Oct 24, 2015 — Robert Wright & Aliou Niang
Parallels between Christianity and Africa’s Diola religion
Essential Diola ritual practices
How economics caused the French Imperial powers to suppress the Diola tradition
The land as a “living being”
Aliou’s path to Christianity via Diola and Sufi traditions
Reading Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians from a Diola perspective
Sep 9, 2015 — Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
Paul Tillich’s conception of God as “the ground of being”
Viewing the Christian tradition as symbolic, not literal
Tillich’s engagement with Eastern mysticism
How Tillich wrestled with the problem of evil
Tillich’s recasting of the idea of divine revelation
Is there consolation in Tillich’s view of death?
Aug 22, 2015 — Robert Wright & Jerusha Lamptey
Why Jerusha doesn’t call her path to Islam a “conversion”
Jerusha: In Islam, science and belief are not in opposition
Constructing a Muslim feminist theology
Taqwa
, the egalitarian idea of “God consciousness”
What the Koran says about the salvation of non-Muslims
Female Muslim scholars are between a rock and a hard place
Aug 15, 2015 — Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
The Hindu idea that you are one with the universe
Moral implications of this idea of oneness
How different are Hindu and Buddhist philosophy?
Grappling with the Buddhist doctrine of “emptiness”
Connecting Hindu belief with the Christian Trinity
John: No, believers are not all “climbing the same mountain
Jul 25, 2015 — Robert Wright & Gary Dorrien
A brief history of liberal theology
Does “theologically liberal” mean “politically liberal?”
When theologians appeared on the cover of
Time
The long lineage of identifying God with “being”
Hegel’s idealism and the Christian
logos
Challenges from neo-orthodoxy and liberation theology
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