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What Makes Religion Popular—Or Not
From Gregory Paul, a freelance paleontologist, researcher, and artist: Although there has been contention between the forces of supernaturalism and the (until recently small number of) rationalists...
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Religious Independents Not So Easily Fooled
From Brint Montgomery, who teaches philosophy at Southern Nazarene University: The Wall Street Journal recently reported on religious independents. From the article: According to the most recent...
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The Religious Struggle over Cryptozoology
From Joe Laycock, a doctoral candidate studying religion and society at Boston University: In 2003, Loren Coleman started the world’s first cryptozoology museum in Portland, Maine. Coleman’s...
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Let Me (Spiritually) Entertain You
From Brint Montgomery, who teaches philosophy at Southern Nazarene University: The media has been reporting on a procedure that removes tumors from the parietal region of the brain and leaves the...
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Does Humanism Have an Expiration Date?
From Brint Montgomery, who teaches philosophy at Southern Nazarene University: Humanism is a system of thought that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their values, capacities, and...
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Shroud’s Image Has a Brain the Size of a Caveman’s
From Gregory Paul, a freelance paleontologist, researcher, and artist: The Shroud of Turin is again on short-term display. When I first saw it many years ago, I immediately realized it was a fake...
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The Future of Neurotheology
From Andrew Newberg, director of research at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals: In my latest book, Principles of Neurotheology, I try to espouse a...
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Neuroscience of Religious Experience
From Randall Stephens, a history professor at Eastern Nazarene College: Patrick McNamara, the director of the Evolutionary Neurobehavior Laboratory in the department of neurology at the Boston...
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Why Evangelicals Believe Weird Things
From Jonathan Dudley, a graduate of Yale Divinity School, a student at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the author of Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American...
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Is Atheism Increasing at the Expense of Theism?
From Gregory Paul, an independent paleontologist and researcher who examines the relationship between religion and society: In recent years, there has been lots of discussion and debate about whether...
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