Being good without God
Faith and reason
Religion as pathology
The problem of evil
Robert Pollack is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University.
Being good without God
Consciousness
Direction in evolution
Gratitude
Religion in a global age
The problem of evil
Ursula Goodenough is a professor of biology at Washington University.
Evolution of religion
Limits of science
Quantum weirdness
Religion in a global age
Self-transcendence
The Godhead
The problem of evil
Keith Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University.
Being good without God
Consciousness
Direction in history
Limits of science
Purpose in history
Religion in a global age
Francis Fukuyama is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy at the School of Advanced International Studies.
Faith and reason
Karma
Quantum weirdness
Self-transcendence
The problem of evil
Why meditate?
Sharon Salzberg is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where she is one of the resident guiding teachers.
Free will
Islam and the west
Mystical experiences
Religion in a global age
Sufism
The problem of evil
The problem of pleasure
What good is religion?
What is God?
Omid Safi teaches in the Religion and Philosophy Department at Colgate University.
Direction in evolution
Faith and reason
Free will
Pantheism
Religion in a global age
The problem of evil
What is God?
Arthur Peacocke, formerly a biochemist and a member of the theology faculty at Oxford University, is honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral at Oxford and a past winner of the Templeton Prize.
Being good without God
Faith and reason
Limits of science
Mystical experiences
Quantum weirdness
Religion in a global age
The Godhead
The problem of evil
Huston Smith is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Syracuse University.
Cosmic evolution
Death
Light
Quantum weirdness
Religion in a global age
Science and religion
The anthropic principle
What is God?
Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Death
Direction in history
Evolution of religion
Religion in a global age
What is God?
Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, formerly a physicist, a professor of theology at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York, and president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, is now national director of the lay movement Communion and Liberation. His essays have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine.
Free will
Quantum weirdness
Religion in a global age
The anthropic principle
The perennial philosophy
The problem of evil
What is God?
John Polkinghorne, formerly a theoretical physicist at Cambridge University, is an Anglican priest.
Being good without God
Consciousness
Death
Emergence
Free will
Intelligent Design
Passion
Science and religion
The biology of religion
Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor emeritus at Harvard. His awards include the National Medal of Science and two Pulitzer Prizes
Consciousness
Direction in history
Faith and reason
Limits of science
Science and religion
The anthropic principle
Freeman Dyson is professor emeritus of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Fundamentalism
Mystical experiences
Myth
Purpose in history
Religion in a global age
Science and religion Self-transcendence
What is God?
Karen Armstrong, a former nun, teaches Christianity at Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism.
Consciousness
Death
Direction in evolution
Direction in history
Free will
Science and religion
John Maynard Smith, who died in 2004 at the age of 84, was one of the major figures in 20th century evolutionary biology. He was professor emeritus at the University of Sussex.
Being good without God
Consciousness
Death
Direction in evolution
Free will
Quantum weirdness
Can anyone meditate?
Faith and reason
Free will
Living in the moment
The problem of evil
The problem of pleasure
What is God?
Why meditate?
Joseph Goldstein is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the resident guiding teachers.