Advertisement for My Duke Lecture—Happening 4-26-17

Just thought I would share this with you.  It’s the advertisement for my Duke lecture that is going out to seminar participants. Title:  “Does Religion Really Poison Everything?  A Critical Review of New Atheist Perspectives on Religion and Science”             In his 1999 book Rocks of Ages, the late Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould coined […]

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“If You Can Keep It,” by Eric Metaxas, Part 1

I am happy to announce that the New Walden Book Club (NWBC) is under way.  Here is the first installment of our discussion of the new book by Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It.  The video discusses the introduction to the book.  There, Metaxas lays the groundwork for what I anticipate will be his argument, namely, […]

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Can I Define “Spiritual”? Can You Explain Prophecy?**

This week I have had several debates on Twitter about my book.  A number of skeptics have been challenging my thesis that religious practices promote mental health and function.  As I have pointed out repeatedly, this is more than a religious teaching; it is also a scientific finding—one that is being taken very seriously by the […]

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