Chaos in Our Souls
by Mark BauerleinRJ Snell joins the podcast to discuss his new book Lost in the Chaos. Continue Reading »
Classical Philosophy and Modern Belief
by Mark BauerleinPaul Herrick joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Philosophy, Reasoned Belief, and Faith: An Introduction. Continue Reading »
Lutherans, Lenin, and Stalin
by Mark BauerleinMatthew Heise joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, The Gates of Hell: An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union. Continue Reading »
Metaxas: Atheism Is Dead
by Mark BauerleinEric Metaxas joins the podcast to discuss his book, Is Atheism Dead? Continue Reading »
Jordan Peterson and God
by Mark BauerleinChristopher Kaczor joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life. Continue Reading »
Does God Exist?
by Mark BauerleinOn this episode, Robert Delfino discusses his book Does God Exist?: A Socratic Dialogue on the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas.
Chicken Soup for the Soulless
by Chris R. MorganBuzzy Jackson is dismayed by “inspirational” books. Not so much because they exist, but because she “never encountered a single one that spoke directly to those of us with a secular outlook.” “Where was the motivating quote of the day for nonbelievers?” she asks. What she wanted was a Chicken Soup for the Soulless, depressing as that sounds on its face, for that one-fifth of Americans who claim no religious affiliation. She wanted a source of hope and comfort for “the atheists, the skeptics, the agnostics, and the ‘spiritual-but-not-religious’ among us.” Yet, on going to the bookstore, she found a void. If Chicken Soup for the Soulless didn’t exist, would it be necessary to invent it? Yes, apparently. Continue Reading »
An Exercise in Begging the Question
by Matthew DugandzicThe world was a dark and gloomy place until the Enlightenment came along, after which people began to think for themselves and break free from the shackles of religious authority. So we are told, once again, in The Moral Arc, a book by journalist Michael Shermer. For him, the Enlightenment did not merely accelerate humanity’s moral progress, but rather it reversed the moral regress characteristic of pre-Enlightenment human history. Since then, science and reason have been guiding humanity on a path toward justice, truth, and freedom. Continue Reading »
Atheists Annoyed in Troy
by Mark BauerleinLast month, American Atheists sent a letter of complaint to the chancellor at Troy demanding an apology. Continue Reading »
No, Please, Anything but God.
by Kate PitroneAndrew Ferguson informs and amuses at The Weekly Standard about that other orthodoxy in, “The Heretic: Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?” It is longish, but I liked it and for possibly unnatural reasons, thought some of you might like it, . . . . Continue Reading »
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