Man and His Modern God

by Mark Bauerlein

On this episode, Dominic Green joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848–1898. Continue Reading »

5 Dec 2022

Evangelicals and Zen Masters

by Matthew Milliner

One evening in 1995, at an evangelical Bible study in New Jersey for twenty-­somethings, I learned that an acquaintance of mine had just dropped out of medical school and was planning to drive to a Hare Krishna ashram in Northern California. We were both tired of the kind of evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019

Grace

by Patricia Snow

On a hazy afternoon in late May 1986, I wait, as I wait every weekday afternoon in a parking lot in Branford, Connecticut, for my son to be dismissed from school. While I wait, I listen to Ceci, another mother new to the school, whose son is in my son’s class. She is telling me about her car. From . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019

My Shamanic Healing

by Matthew Schmitz

When I last visited New Orleans, the Robert E. Lee Monument was being used as an altar. Two voodoo priestesses, turbans atop their heads, scattered gunpowder and grave dirt on the granite plinth. With splendid indifference to those who had erected the memorial, they summoned their gods through an . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2017