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50 years after Time magazine’s famous ‘Is God Dead?’ cover, Church attendance numbers are tumbling. But that doesn’t mean Christianity is on the way out.
Sugar and saturated fat aren’t ‘evil’ and kale and avocado aren’t ‘good’.
The prosperity gospel – a uniquely American strand of Christian theology – creates a dilemma for its adherents.
For human groups to grow from small, intimate communities to the huge interconnected societies we know now, people needed to be willing to cooperate with strangers. Religion might have played a big role.
Kepler-452b’s discovery last week has raised the perennial question: are we alone in the universe? While the find’s scientific import is huge, it also poses questions that go to the heart of religion.
If the commands of reason really do require a god, then that god exists beyond reasonable doubt. Agree? Disagree? Read on …
Getting on for 14 billion years ago the universe suddenly sprang into life. I can’t actually do the math, as they say, but I’m happy to accept the word of those who can that the physics is unambiguously…
The term “reboot” means something particular in the movies. The metaphor is drawn from computers: a “reboot” restarts a machine whose software has malfunctioned. But in cinematic terms a reboot refers…
Disputes about the existence of God — like most disputes about religion, politics, and sex — almost always generate heat but not light. The question of the existence of God seems intractable. As with other…
Notions of gods arise in all human societies, from all powerful and all-knowing deities to simple forest spirits. A recent method of examining religious thought and behaviour links their ubiquity and the…
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Director of the Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy & Associate Professor, New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
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Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
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President, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of German, Cinema and Media Arts, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Senior Research Fellow, Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at IUPUI and Journalist-fellow, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London
