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BY HEMANT MEHTA OCTOBER 1, 2020 There are plenty of books that explain evolution, debunk Creationism, and get into the weeds of public policy regarding how we teach science. But historian Adam Laats believes we will only be able to get past the controversy if we have a better understanding of how it developed and how we’ve […]
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN Iris Murdoch is one of my favorite philosophers and novelists, but I seldom get to use her work in my teaching. Murdoch claimed to be an atheist, but she also believed that true moral commitment requires belief in something greater than ourselves, something transcendent not subject to the vagaries and whims […]
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 BY JOHNTURNER Peter Manseau is Curator of American Religious History at the Smithsonian. His most recent book is The Jefferson Bible: A Biography, a contribution to Princeton University Press’s Lives of Great Religious Books series. Thanks, Peter, for engaging in this conversation about your book about Jefferson’s Bible project. What is the Jefferson Bible, and how […]
AUGUST 19, 2020 BY VANCEMORGAN This month marks the eighth anniversary of this blog. It started on WordPress as an outlet for short essays that I had been writing for a couple of years and didn’t know what to do with. Friends and colleagues told me that (1) I needed to get them out into the […]
JUNE 3, 2019 BY VANCEMORGAN At its best, faith is the overflow of gratitude, the attempt to live as if we are loved, the fragile hope for something better on the other side of pain and death. And this feather of grace weighs more in the balance than any political gain. Michael Gerson One of the great […]