As you likely do not know, every morning I read one very short essay in a small religiously conservative Daily Devotional magazine publish...

Can a critical thinker also be a person of traditional religious faith? It is true that many are, or at least appear to be, but who knows ...

Here is an interesting question for my friends who regard the Bible as being literally the Word of God, Himself: Must I believe everything ...

This essay describes a few practical guidelines for engaging religious traditions that have evolved from my personal experience and ponderin...

I was chatting with a friend about someone I knew who was at the extremity of life and described him/her as a person of devout religious fai...

I am usually given a non-answer when I ask a question that rubs-up uncomfortably against someone’s religious beliefs. For example, I may say...

This essay is about something we all likely know, or at least should know. The term “religions” refers to various historical movements that ...

In biblical texts there are accounts of different responses to divinity. In this essay the divine is considered a proposition that individua...

Do you think of yourself as pious? In the practice of religion, the word pious is construed today in contradictory ways. The first definitio...

In common vernacular superstition is a negative word. It evokes images of voodoo, magic objects, and fetishes. In a milder form in the moder...

What are religious experiences and whence do they arise? I raise the question because certain observations seem to challenge the adjective “...

Readers of the Age of Reason should not assume that Paine is in step with all positions of modern critical scholarship. One way that he i...

It is surprising to me that, although my graduate education was in the critical study of the New Testament literature in its historical co...