I don't think Baggini has earned the right to patronize religious believers, but it's particularly striking that he does so after telling readers to question their own questions, advice he fails to heed himself. Continue Reading »
Can anything we ever learn about history, about the universe, about ourselves compare with that reality in its sheer strangeness and wonderful improbability? He is risen; he is risen indeed. Continue Reading »
The knowledge we gather from the natural sciences should complement our Catholic faith. Continue Reading »
My journey of faith has been a process of knocking down every single rational barrier that stands between my soul and faith itself. Faith is so hard for people my age. Continue Reading »
For me, two couplets will always capture the essence of Pope Benedict XVI: faith and reason, realism and hope. Continue Reading »
You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty. —Flannery O’Connor And did you really think there would ever come a timewhen things would go as you’d dreamed they . . . . Continue Reading »
Islam,” Mustafa Akyol writes in his latest book, “is not the powerful, creative, sophisticated, beautiful civilization that it once was.” Instead, Akyol argues in Reopening Muslim Minds, Islam is in a crisis, a crisis that cannot simply be blamed on Western colonialism or imperialism. . . . . Continue Reading »
H. L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Puritans, and Calvinists more generally, have a reputation for harboring an ungenerous suspicion of even the most innocent delights as sinfulness in disguise. Though this reputation is not . . . . Continue Reading »
What historical claims does the Bible make about Adam and Eve? And is belief in a historical Adam and Eve compatible with the scientific evidence? In order to avoid the pitfalls of reading contemporary science into the biblical texts, it is best to treat these questions separately. Only after having . . . . Continue Reading »
Joseph Stuart joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason. Continue Reading »
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