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Articles
What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can’t)
|Despite very real problems with religion, I think we still need it.
Making Order Out of Disorder
|How can messy and disordered processes produce complexity and life?
Is Individualism Compatible with Faith?
|Analytical thinking is correlated with individualism, but not so much with religion.
Life on Mars: Why It Matters. What It Means.
|Digging deeper into last week’s revelations about the Red Planet.
How to Build a More Forgiving Community
|We can find love and healing after being wronged.
Is There a Universal Morality?
|15 essays on secular and scientific approaches to morality.
More Science for Seminaries
|AAAS extends science in theological education program.
Positive Psychology in Synagogues
|Positive Psychology is the scientific study of human flourishing. The field has been pioneered by Martin Seligman and other psychologists over the past couple of decades. They seek to understand what helps people thrive in their lives and have discovered many indicators and actions which can lead to a life filled with meaning and purpose. […]
Molecular Altruism
|To get a grip on altruism, see humans as molecules.