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December 29, 2018 — What do prayer and meditation mean to you?
MeaningofLife.tv Asks...
August 03, 2016 — Benjamin Perry & Emily Brewer
Presbyterians who say "no" to war
What's the connection between religion and violence?
How Emily's time in Guatemala led her to peacework
Emily: Conflict zones aren't quite as scary as you might think
Ben: Am I praying wrong?
How can religious institutions get better at promoting peace?
September 10, 2015 — Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
Conversations@Union
Paul Tillich's conception of God as "the ground of being"
Viewing the Christian tradition as symbolic, not literal
Tillich's engagement with Eastern mysticism
How Tillich wrestled with the problem of evil
Tillich's recasting of the idea of divine revelation
Is there consolation in Tillich's view of death?
September 26, 2015 — Robert Wright & Glenn Loury
The Wright Show
Glenn's born-again Christian experience
A double life: Harvard professor and crack addict
How the death of a close friend shattered Glenn's faith
Is a secular life a less meaningful life?
Glenn's communitarian understanding of moral truth
Why hedonism isn't enough
January 18, 2018 — Nikita Petrov & Tanya Luhrmann
How psychosis and prayer can make invisible entities 'real'
Why the voices heard by American schizophrenics are especially mean
Turning madness into vocation: the shamans of West Africa
Why talking to one's hallucinations is a good idea
How evangelicals shape their God
'Remembering' past lives in Scientology and 'satanic ritual abuse' in therapy
November 29, 2018 — John Horgan & Robert Trivers
Mind-Body Problems
A social theory based on natural selection
"This whole gender thing that's blown up in the last 10 years..."
Women, men, and intelligence
Could evolutionary psychology explain honor killings?
"The older I get, the more I turn to prayer and meditation"
Robert's recurring problem with spite
November 14, 2018 — Nikita Petrov & Tanya Luhrmann
Tanya's "local theory of mind"
Harry Potter, prayer, and other "cultural invitations"
Psychotherapy in the US and witchcraft in Ghana
American individualism and Asian interdependence
The differences between hearing God in Ghana and the US
The Internet as externalized imagination: Pepe and Kek
A "hyper-real God": having coffee with Jesus
Thoughts, perceptions, the world, and the self
November 17, 2015 — Daniel Kaufman & Leslie Baynes
Sophia
Digging into C. S. Lewis's "Liar, Lunatic, or Lord" argument
Did Jesus assert his own divinity?
Unpacking "son of God" and "son of man"
The Jesus of John vs. the Jesus of Mark
How to use the New Testament as a historical document
Why Leslie, a Christian, wants to rebut Lewis's apologetic
December 08, 2018 — Robert Wright & Fr. Michael Holleran
The Wright Show
Father Michael's 22 years as a Carthusian Monk
The contemplative tradition in Christianity
How Zen captivated Father Michael
Do Buddhist and Hindu mystics experience the same thing?
Zen's influence on Father Michael's theology
God, creation, and evolution
What insights does Christianity add to Buddhism?
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's influence on Father Michael
March 09, 2018 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Pater Edmund Waldstein
Culturally Determined
Why the Mortara case is still provoking argument 150 years later
Pater Edmund offers a defense of Pope Pius IX
Integralism and different conceptions of liberty
What would an integralist Catholic state look like?
How Pater Edmund became a monk (with a blog)
The day-to-day life of a modern meditating monk
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