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Nov 15, 2015 —
David Bryce Yaden & David Vago
TAGS Buddhism | cognitive science | meditation | mindfulness | psychology | religion | self | spirituality
Oct 19, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jorge Ferrer
- Do all religions have the same “esoteric core?”
- The psychedelic origins of transpersonal psychology
- Aligning your instincts, consciousness, and heart through “participatory spirituality”
- Constructing reality through “embodied cognition”
- Why Jorge would object to making participatory spirituality a religion
- The complicated morality of “enlightened” spiritual teachers
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?
Sep 6, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Clayton Critcher
- Clayton’s research into the psychology of religious belief
- The difference between awe and inspiration
- Evidence that inspiration causes belief in God
- The effects of remembering personally inspiring events
- What happens during moments of spiritual transcendence
- Believing in a loving God vs. a controlling God
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
Jul 19, 2015 —
Robert Wright & David Sloan Wilson
TAGS altruism | evolution | genetics | nationalism | philosophy | psychology | religion | Richard Dawkins | science | self
Nov 1, 2014 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
- Stoic Week is almost here—get that catering order in!
- Wrestling philosophy out of the ivory tower and onto the street
- Neo-Stoicism: Like the ancient kind, but with less Zeus
- A day in the life of a practicing modern Stoic
- Can Stoicism be a secular replacement for traditional religion?
- That guy who always cries at weddings? Probably a philosopher
Jul 26, 2014 —
John Horgan & George Johnson
TAGS agnosticism | atheism | climate change | consciousness | cosmology | Daniel Dennett | evolution | mathematics | physics | religion | science
Jan 13, 2014 —
Sarah Posner & Katie Engelhart
On The Posner Show, Sarah talks with Katie about the successes and challenges of the Sunday Assembly, the “atheist megachurch.” How did the Sunday Assembly spread from East London to forty cities around the world? What caused a split between the Sunday Assembly and a group in New York, which complained about prohibitions on talking about atheism? They discuss why atheist church is appealing—or not—to atheists. Katie says when you create a new church, schisms are inevitable. What is the role of charismatic leaders in keeping churches afloat? Finally: What does the future hold for atheist churches?
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