Neoliberal ideology (i.e. free market fundamentalism) invokes ersatz-principles that are covertly pernicious and blatantly duplicitous.  The ideology is based on […]

A point of departure is to define religiosity vis a vis secularity.  This can be seen as a spectrum analogous […]

“The true object of history is the story of the mind, not the tale of facts which are forever being […]

Misconceptions Of Secularism: In his book, A Secular Age, Charles Taylor defines “secularism” as a kind of “loss”.  He holds […]

A BRIEF HISTORY OF JESUSISM (PROTO-CHRISTIANTY / NEO-JUDAISM) 30–325 A.D. 30 A.D. (+/- 2 years) The alleged execution of Jesus […]

The conventional wisdom posits a spectrum of religiosity where so-called “extremism” is at one end and secularism at the other, […]

Many phenomena are too amorphous and evanescent to be reduced to a discrete concept or captured by ink on paper.  […]

RELIGION: ON YOUR OWN TIME, ON YOUR OWN DIME: What’s the use of good stories?  Why do we need them?  […]

“The separation of the ‘spirit of the Bible’ from the ‘letter of the Bible’ is an irreligious act.” –Karl Marx […]

GRASPING THE DIVINE: AN ACCOUNT OF CNVs & CPFs Of all the truths we’ve come to learn about human nature, […]