The Anxious Bench

Popular notions about baby-making, religious or not, often have been peculiar. Tolstoy found this novelist's ideas worth recommending.

American Buddhist Perspectives

Here Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche talks about Western students' common over-reliance on willpower, which puffs up egos and sets up disappointing defeats.

Unsystematic Theology

In my shift toward a more universalist view of salvation, these verses discussed in Moltmann's The Coming of God were key.

Faith on the Couch

Our children are being besieged with the message that atheism is "smart" and faith is "dumb."

The Mormon Therapist

Religiously conservative people are at risk for being taken advantage of by these types of treatment approaches.

Reel Faith

The best films provoke a response, and Sully beckons viewers to realize their own potential for greatness and compassion.

Frank Schaeffer

Living the Questions presents "let me be FRANK," the traitorous turnabout of an evangelical heir apparent. Watch the trailer here.

Monkey Mind

This is a powerful addition to the literature on end-of-life care, both for those dying and those who accompany them.

Dowsing for Divinity

Public ritual doesn't have to be dull and lacking in transcendence, and it needn't involve a lot of standing around being bored.

Spirituality Itself

I had expected to be treated like an invisible, dumb, older woman, and my expectations were met, but it was my son who was outraged.

(re)integrate

Perhaps we need to rethink the way we categorize people.

Oikonomia

Deirdre McCloskey argues that our prosperity is not due to systems, tools, or materials, but the ideas, virtues, and rhetoric behind them.

No God Blog

These essays focus on women and the role religions have played in the culture of many countries to denigrate and subordinate women.