Essays
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A growing movement of believers are rejecting the notion of an all-powerful God, finding inspiration and comfort in a morally relatable, but limited God.
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Modern life has created a spiritual crisis around time. By combining Henri Bergson’s concept of lived time (durée) with Shia Islamic metaphysics, we might move…
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Our dating lives have become more atomized, excluding the social capital from friends and family that has traditionally benefitted courtship.
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America’s mass incarceration system is built on Beowulf’s same mistaken view for how we ought to address “evil” in society.
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Literary intellectuals investigate the power imagination gives us to pose unending questions about our world—viewing religion, philosophy, and science as literary genres full of metaphors.
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Philosopher William James‘ concept of tender-minded vs. tough-minded thinkers helps us better understand what most informs our personal beliefs.
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Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.
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Bringing meditation techniques into his new role as a middle school teacher, a former academic finds some resolution despite a new crisis.