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Yale professor David Gelernter tells Big Think that America should acknowledge its identity as a Judeo-Christian society and mandate teaching of the Bible in our public schools. America is a […]

Husna Haq at The CSM explains why she is and other Muslims are so offended by depictions of Mohammad and why it's no surprise Pakistan has banned Facebook for the rest of May.

The “Judaism: A Way of Being” author makes the case for Judaism as the most important intellectual development in Western history.

The Jews have another Israel. It's in Siberia - and it was their first official home.

A feature in the Boston Globe argues that it is delusional and dangerous to think that all religions are paths to the same holy wisdom.

Atheism makes for “great blood sport“—at least that is what writer Yann Martel believes.  But the writer is far more interested in what cannot be reasoned, and in his Big […]

“It’s obvious to anybody that the mind does much more than solve problems,” Yale computer scientist David Gelernter says in his Big Think interview. “But in a more fundamental way, […]

The American Academy of Pediatrics is under fire for revising its guidelines on female genital mutilation (FGM). U.S. federal law bans all forms of female genital cutting for minors. However, […]

Conventional wisdom tells us that church is good for us and obesity is bad for us. So what are we finding when we research the link between the two? On […]

Professor Luke Timothy Johnson argues that Christianity over time came to resemble the broad range of pagan/gentile religions, but that Judaism pulled back from its involvement with Hellenism.

Jury selection starts this week in the trial of Scott Roeder, who has confessed to the assassination last May of George Tiller, a doctor vilified by pro-lifers for performing late-term […]

Writing about intelligence is like running a ferry service between two different planets. On one, everyone assumes that g, general intelligence, is a real and important trait, in which heredity […]

Is religious preaching trying to teach us something or trying to convince us of something?

Despite the recent Gaza conflict and the subsequent media backlash against Israel, the land of milk and honey has found an unlikely cultural and socio-political marriage with Latin America. Don’t […]

Europe has wisdom, sense, spirits and a good virtue. Yet, it appears that she disorderly managed valuable values. It is the time now to reinvent these and to work together on widening and deepening, due to believes in our prosperity and welfare.

Shmuley Boteach on religion for the modern world.

Judaism today is a microcosm of the world: there are fundamentalists as well as those who see the state of Israel as an example grand peace and interdependence, as well […]

Meridor talks about the challenge of choice that modern Jews face, in which their connection to the Jewish faith and community is not assured. He says that each Jew must […]

Re-imagining Judaism. Transcript: Oh gosh. Well I’m sort of a futurist about religion and Judaism in the world. And I think about how to . . . I mean I […]

Emanuel is a synagogue-going atheist.

Toward evidence-based spirituality. Transcript: I think it’s . . . I use the ecological model in understanding how wisdom traditions ought to work in the world today. And the ecological […]