Ghulf Genes

Let me start with paradox. The Online Etymology Dictionary tells us that the word comes from the Greek and is made up of para - meaning “c...

The question, What are the religious propensities? and the question, What is their philosophic significance? are two entirely different orde...

Back on December 24, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece by Tanya Marie Luhrman, an anthropologist at Stanford. It was titled “Religion ...

A very thoughtful column by David Brooks in the New York Times today (“Alone, Yet Not Alone”) caught our eyes this morning. Its thematic i...

Religious affiliation of large masses of people is damnably difficult to establish with what might be called scientific precision. The reas...

The conflict between church and state is, you might say, built in. Religion organizes people; it forms communities. The leader or leaders of...

Cultural life produces recognizable fields of activity easily linked to physical things, but pondering them I see strange landscapes of ambi...

Yesterday’s posting on the Papal initiative—to invite dissident Anglicans to join the Catholic Church—prompted me to ask myself why that eve...