“An opinion hath spread it selfe verie farre in the world, as if the waye to be ripe in faith, were to be rawe in wit and judgement; as if reason were an enimie unto religion … [But] ‘Judge you of that [...]

I can’t say lamb anymorethan I could have said damn to my mother as a 3rd grader, though I tried once,quoting my older brother,and still I was sent to my room without supper. I think Jesus came not just to say so [...]

     Most of these are questions sent to me several years ago by a friend who was just getting to know me (I think they were recycled from a new atheist website.) He was and is an atheist who had once been [...]

Every year a good number of first year students at Butler University choose to enroll in a two-semester core course called "Faith, Doubt and Reason." And every year I get interviewed by students who are writing their final papers for the first [...]

For me, to believe in God is to awaken to reality as such as at once intimately all-enlivening, all-sustaining and all-embracing. The common reality within which I ultimately live, and to which I awaken, enlivens not just me but all things, sustains [...]

Be mindful of yourself, not as a fixed thing but as a way of newly interacting (very recurrent, very inclusive, but still a way of newly interacting).Likewise, be mindful of others, all others, whether like or unlike you, not as fixed things [...]

Here are some examples of how people have spoken of their experience of God in similar terms through the ages, though they don't all say exactly the same thing. I've also included Sam Harris's account of meditation, because he sounds a lot [...]

First, experience:In every experience a) you experience yourself; b) you experience others, some occasionally very like you, most others not so much; c) and if you pay enough attention you experience all as newly interacting in various ways.Now to process thought: Most of [...]

(This is a simplified version of process theism, but it's also a bit Tillichian, a bit Hegelian, a bit Patristic, a bit Radically Orthodox, a bit postmodern, all at once.) I experience myself and others within our continually differing inclusion.* This experience, [...]

[This was a sort of position paper drafted to assist a student interviewing me for his "Philosophy of Mind" course.] "What I am essentially protesting against is the bifurcation of nature ... into two divisions, namely into the nature apprehended in awareness and [...]