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Sep 17, 2016 —
Nikita Petrov & George Young
- What is Russian cosmism?
- The religious side of cosmism
- Cosmism as a response to the challenges of the 20th century
- Nature as a temporary enemy and eternal friend
- Pavel Florensky, the Russian da Vinci
- Plant life as a spiritual ideal
- The father of the Soviet space program, and his weird spirituality
- Cosmism and transhumanism: Compare and contrast
- Cosmism as a Russian propaganda project
TAGS Christianity | consciousness | death | evolution | history | human nature | mysticism | occult | philosophy | politics | religion | science | spirituality | technology | the future | transhumanism
Sep 12, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Robert George
- Why Robby refuses to support Trump
- Is history shaped more by social forces or human agency?
- Robby gives an insider’s view on why Appalachia is Trump country
- The declining influence of religion
- How a lack of humility poisons politics
- Contempt in current political rhetoric
- Robby: Politicians need to get out of the identity politics game
TAGS Christianity | ethics | free will | history | moral imagination | philosophy | politics | psychology | religion | tribalism
Aug 3, 2016 —
Benjamin Perry & Emily Brewer
TAGS Christianity | economics | meditation | moral imagination | power | prayer | religion | violence | war
Jul 5, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Steven Nadler
TAGS ancient philosophy | atheism | Buddhism | Christianity | Donald Trump | enlightenment | ethics | evolution | Judaism | meditation | mysticism | philosophy | politics | religion
Jun 24, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Kaufman
TAGS Christianity | ethics | Islam | meditation | mindfulness | moral imagination | philosophy | psychology | religion
Jun 20, 2016 —
Robert Wright
TAGS Buddhism | Christianity | consciousness | game theory | Islam | meditation | religion | spirituality
Mar 6, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Ingram
- What is it like to be an arhat?
- Perspectives on the self: It’s nothing, it’s everything
- What enlightenment is, and what’s so great about it
- Dwelling in enlightenment is easy, but getting there can be hard
- Does enlightenment entail moral improvement?
- Can meditation save—or impede salvation of—the world?
TAGS Buddhism | Christianity | consciousness | enlightenment | happiness | Hinduism | meditation | mysticism | psychology | religion | self | spirituality
Mar 1, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Mark Smith
- Considering the thesis of Mark’s new book Secular Faith
- Creative uses of the Scriptures by pro-choice and pro-life advocates
- What shapes attitudes towards abortion?
- Reinterpreting biblical condemnations of homosexuality
- How cultural change affects religious thought
- How cultural change affects religious institutions
Feb 4, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Heather Hurlburt
TAGS Christianity | Donald Trump | family | Judaism | Paul Tillich | politics | religion | spirituality | tribalism
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
Aug 1, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Karl Giberson
- Why Adam is crucial to Christian theology
- What happens when the Biblical Adam encounters modern genetics
- The “slippery slope” of critical inquiry
- What do you need to believe to be a Christian?
- Trying to reconcile God as Creator with natural selection
- Evolutionary psychology and the doctrine of original sin
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