religion
10/12/2018 - 13:25
The tribunals were responsible for organizing the auto-da-fe, public penance rituals for those considered heretics by church... →
17/11/2018 - 19:53
Though the global liberal order has many faults and problems, it has proved superior to all alternatives. The liberal world of the early... →
05/10/2018 - 15:47
Whether you are a staunch atheist, a reserved agnostic, or a devout believer, you are equally likely to find the effects of religion on... →
15/06/2018 - 18:15
There is, on the one hand, the naturalistic side of Buddhism, featuring ideas that would fit easily into a college psychology or philosophy... →
01/04/2018 - 16:43
Bruno said the universe has no center, and stars are suns, surrounded by planets and moons. Remarkably, he thus outlined large-scale... →
29/12/2017 - 17:23
That includes the man who most recently popularized the idea, psychologist Steven Pinker of Harvard University, who calls the new findings... →
13/12/2017 - 14:30
“Is that what you’re wearing?” the security guard asked as I stood at the entrance to the giant Wadi Mujib gorge in southern Jordan. I was... →
05/11/2017 - 14:13
Although this was the first demonstration of such bias at a global scale, its existence is hardly surprising. Survey data show that... →
11/07/2017 - 13:20
Under the guise of strengthening their “Jewish identities,” they feel their children are the targets of missionary activities in the... →
29/04/2017 - 12:39
We were Methodists and I’d never heard this sort of prediction. But to my grade-school mind, the evidence seemed ironclad, the case closed... →
24/04/2017 - 12:44
Over the past 20 years – from Khaled Kelkal, a leader of a plot to bomb Paris trains in 1995, to the Bataclan killers of 2015 –... →
16/04/2017 - 11:06
Compare that with, for example, King Arthur, who supposedly lived around AD500. The major historical source for events of that time does... →