Essays
Trusting Again: On the God Emerging From Faith Reconstruction
A growing movement of believers are rejecting the notion of an all-powerful God, finding inspiration and comfort in a morally relatable, but limited God.
Beyond the Clock to a Sacred Phenomenology of Time
Modern life has created a spiritual crisis around time. By combining Henri Bergson’s concept of lived time (durée) with Shia Islamic metaphysics, we might move…
‘Love Is Blind’ and the Atomization of Finding a Mate
Our dating lives have become more atomized, excluding the social capital from friends and family that has traditionally benefitted courtship.
What ‘Beowulf’ Says About the American Incarceration System
America’s mass incarceration system is built on Beowulf’s same mistaken view for how we ought to address “evil” in society.
The Opposable Thumb at the End of the Imagination
Literary intellectuals investigate the power imagination gives us to pose unending questions about our world—viewing religion, philosophy, and science as literary genres full of metaphors.
Tender-Minded vs. Tough-Minded Thinkers
Philosopher William James‘ concept of tender-minded vs. tough-minded thinkers helps us better understand what most informs our personal beliefs.
On the Something There Is
Poets, like pragmatists, possess a unique ability to sit with uncertainties and doubts. For them, neither walls nor metaphors are ever complete.
Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part III
Bringing meditation techniques into his new role as a middle school teacher, a former academic finds some resolution despite a new crisis.