What's New

03-09-10
Added Culture Crimes against Women; and Legitimacy and Deterrence Effects in Counter-Terrorism Policing: A Study of Muslim Americans to the Islam page. Added Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism; The New Landscape of the Religion Blogosphere; and No Respect: Brian Leiter on Religion to the Religion page. Added The Chronic Dependence of Popular Religiosity upon Dysfunctional Psychosociological Conditions to the Atheism page. Added Hiddenness, Evidence, and Idolatry to the Philosophy page. Added Fact Suppression and the Subversion of Capital Punishment: What Death Penalty Foes on the Supreme Court and in the Media Do Not Want the Public to Know to the Politics page.

02-23-10
Added The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right; Second Nature; Explorations in Christian Theology and Ethics; The Neo-liberal State; Religion and Science in Context; and Galileo Goes to Jail to the Readings page. Added Using Protistan Examples to Dispel the Myths of Intelligent Design; and A Response by Bjorn Lomborg to Howard Friel’s The Lomborg Deception to the Science page. Added Justice As Desert to the Philosophy page. Added Religious Argument, Free Speech Theory, and Democratic Dynamism to the Politics page. Added Profane Holiness to the Atheism page. Added Profanity: The Gnostic Affront of the Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television; The Unconverted Subconscious in Psychotherapy: Biblical Foundations, Psychological Explorations and Clinical Applications; The Dedication to the Sacred (DS) Scale: Adapting a Marriage Measure to Study Relational Spirituality; and Exploring Christians’ Explicit Attachment to God Representations: The Development of a Template for Assessing Attachment to God Expierences to the Psychology page.

02-22-10
Added The Impact of Child-Parent Attachment, Attachment to God and Religious Orientation on Psychological Adjustment; The ABC-X Model of Family Stress in the Book of Philippians; Kierkegaard as Physician of the Soul: On Self-Forgiveness and Despair; The New Exodus: A Narrative Paradigm for Understanding Soul Care; and Appreciative Musings on Normative Thoughts, Normative Feelings, Normative Actions to the Psychology page.

02-19-10
Added Wired for Intimacy; Jesus Without Religion; American Babylon; Islam in Europe; The Reason for God; Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church; Augustine of Hippo; and Religion and the American Future to the Readings page.

02-04-10
Added Predestination; God and Cosmos in Stoicism; Revival of the Gnostic Heresy; Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy; Israel and the Nations; and The Ethics of Modernism to the Readings page.

01-29-10
Added Equations from God; The Philosophy of Jesus; Debate and Dialogue; Paths From Science Towards God; Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple; Why Have You Come Here?; The Two Reformations; and Courting Disaster to the Readings page.

01-27-10
Added What Has Theology Ever Done for Science? to the Science page. Added A Material Solution to the Problem of Induction to the Philosophy page. Added The Definition of Atheism to the Atheism page. Added The Making and Unmaking of Prejudice to the Psychology page. Added The New Testament Definition of Heresy (or When Do Jesus and the Apostles Really Get Mad?); and Clearing Up Misconceptions About Corporate Election to the Theology page. Added Neoconservatism and Leo Strauss: The Place of a Liberal Education to the Politics page.

01-20-10
Added Reason, Faith and History; The Sense of Creation; The Gospel of Jesus; and Post-Christian Feminisms to the Readings page.

01-12-10
Added A Paradise of Reason; The Return of Religion in France; On Søren Kierkegaard; Neopragmatism and Theological Reason; The Narcissim of Minor Diferences; Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology; and The Animal Research War to the Readings page.

01-05-10
Added The Atonement Debate; Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons; The World the Sixties Made; Goddess of the Market; Desiring the Kingdom; and The Divine Commodity to the Readings page.

12-31-09
Added Methodologies of Comparative Philosophy; Losing My Religion; Not A Chimp; Landscape with Two Saints; The Paleobiological Revolution; Casting Faiths; Democracy at Risk; Shaping a Global Theological Mind; and Common Factors in Couple and Family Therapy to the Readings page.

12-22-09
Added Naturalizing the Human or Humanizing Nature: Science, Nature and the Supernatural; Skepticism, Self-Knowledge and Responsibility and Angelic Sin in Augustine and Anselm to the Philosophy page. Added The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Government in America; and Failed State to the Politics page. Added Advanced Techniques for Counseling and Psychotherapy; Exploring in Security; God and the Founders; Doing Psychiatry Wrong; and Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon to the Readings page.

12-17-09
Added The Politically Correct University; Judging Mohammed; A Turn to Empire; Margins of Religion; Beyond Terror and Martyrdom; The Challenge of Bible Translation; The Ten Lost Tribes; Orthodoxy and the Cold War; The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice; and A Darwinian Worldview to the Readings page.

12-14-09
Added Current Trends in Islamist Ideology - Volumes 7 and 8 to the Islam page. Added Manufactured Controversy; and The Eternal Return of Compassionate Conservatism to the Politics page. Added Election in Romans Chapter Nine to the Theology page. Added Darwin and Christian Faith; and Excluding Religion Excludes More Than Religion to the Religion page. Added Pure Pleasure; Modern Psychopathologies; If Grace Is True; Freud and False Memory Syndrome; Ex-Gays?; The God of Hope and the End of theWorld; Islam in American Prisons; and Family Therapies to the Readings page.

12-11-09
Added Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology and Naturalism as a coherent ism to the Philosophy page. Added Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA’s Endangerment Finding from Greenhouse Gases to the Science page. Added The Faithfulness of Jesus Christ in Romans and Galatians to the Theology page. Added An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming to the Religion page. Added God’s Strategy In Human History; Body, Soul, and Human Life; Ivory Towers on Sand; Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism; A Mended and Broken Heart; and The God Who Smokes to the Readings page.

12-09-09
Added Economies of Promise: On Caesar and Christ to the Religion page. Added Atheism, Christianity, and the Meaning of Life to the Atheism page. Added Trying My Very Best to Believe Darwin, or, The Supernaturalistic Fallacy: From is to Nought to the Science page. Added Early Readers of the Gospels: The Kephalaia and Titloi of Codex Alexandrinus to the Theology page. Added Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics to the Philosophy page.

11-20-09
Added Faithful, Engaged, and Divergent; Attack of the Utility Monsters; Who Killed California?; and Fleming Rose, the Danish Cartoon Controversy, and the New European Freedom of Speech to the Politics page. Added American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population to the Atheism page. Added How Did We Get Our Bible and Has It Been Changed? to the Theology page.

11-18-09
Added Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought; The Evolution–Creation Struggle; Denying the Holocaust; Who Rules in Science; and How to be Evangelical Without Being Conservative to the Readings page.

11-02-09
Added Orthodoxy; 6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization; Jesus Made in America; Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview; Two Views of Hell; Unapologetic Apologetics; Justification: What's at Stake in the Current Debates; To Everyone an Answer; John Calvin: A Pilgrim's Life; The Divine Authenticity of Scripture; Body & Soul; God's Rivals; The Right Questions; Science & Christianity: Four Views; The Trinity & Subordinationism; Graven Ideologies; The Dawkins Delusion?; and The New Shape of World Christianity to the Readings page.

10-15-09
Added The Case for the Enlightenment; The Word and the World; The New Faces of Christianity; The Motion Paradox; Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will; Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian; and Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers to the Readings page.

10-14-09
Added The Monotheists: Vol. I; The Monotheists: Vol. II; Exorcism and Enlightenment; Putting On Virtue; Forbidden Fruit; Divine Hiddenness; and Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order to the Readings page.

10-07-09
Added Gusher of Lies; Negotiating Darwin; Priests, Prelates and People; Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought; Why Intelligent Design Fails; The Long Shadow of Temperament; Politics and Religion in the White South; Healing the Broken Mind; and The Coming Balkan Caliphate to the Readings page.

10-02-09
Added Is Religion the Environment's Last Best Hope?; and Can There be a Religion of Reasons? to the Religion page. Added Paul's Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9:1-9; and Southern Baptist Calvinism to the Theology page. Added Liberal Democracy and Political Islam to the Islam page.

09-27-09
Added The Indelible Image; A World Abandoned by God; The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs; The Formation of Islam; Sacred Schisms; The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought; Fatal Future?; and The Perversion of Youth to the Readings page.

09-21-09
Added Liberty and Tyranny; The New Atheists; American Fascists; A Nation by Design; and Islam in the Digital Age to the Readings page.

09-18-09
Added New Age Spirituality, Quantum Mysticism, and Self-Psychology to the Psychology page. Added Transcending Technology: Looking at Futurology as a New Religious Movement to the Religion page.

09-09-09
Added Philosophers without Gods; The Faithful; The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000–1500; Cities of God; Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth; Hitler's Crusade; Science and the Spiritual Quest; Hating America; God According to God; Faith, Science and Understanding; Metametaphysics; and Muslim Rebels to the Readings page.

09-01-09
Added The Powers of War and Peace; Total Cure; Ancient Religions; Jesus was a Liberal; A Secular Age; Knowing the Enemy; Knowing the Unknowable; Apologetics for a New Generation; Matter and Spirit in the Universe; and Creationism’s Trojan Horse to the Readings page.

08-26-09
Added The Rebirth of the Clinic; Re-Thinking Christianity; Varieties of Muslim Experience; Wrestling with God and with Evil; The Present Future; and Synod on the Freedom of Conscience to the Readings page.

08-23-09
Added Evolution vs. Creationism; An Argument for Mind; The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior; Narrative Therapy; and Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology to the Readings page.

08-14-09
Added God, Science, and the New Atheism to the Atheism page. Added Accounting for Spatial Variation in Tolerance: The Effects of Education and Religion to the Religion page. Added James, Brown and “The Will to Believe” to the Philosophy page. Added Psychology and Global Climate Change to the Psychology page. Added Divine Hardening in the Old Testament to the Theology page. Added The Irrational Atheist; and The Meaning of Jesus to the Readings page.

08-10-09
Added The Myth of Secular Tolerance to the Atheism page. Added Creationism For Liberals; and Climate Money to the Science page. Added Breaking Faith With Britain to the Politics page. Added Justification: The Calvin-Saumur Perspective to the Theology page.

08-09-09
Added Darwin's Spectre; Hamas Vs. Fatah; The Character of Nations; When Prayer Fails; The Lost World of Genesis One; Atheist Delusions; Rediscovering America's Sacred Ground; Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade; The World We Want; Elements of Mind; The Theology of the Book of Genesis; Exploring Reality; and The End of Secularism to the Readings page.

08-03-09
Added The Passions of Christ in High-Medieval Thought; When God Stood Up; Sustainable Diplomacy; The Message of the Old Testament; Spiritual Evolution; The Great Exchange; Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy; Religion and Politics; For the Glory of God; and Land, Law and Islam to the Readings page.

07-27-09
Added Understanding Jihad; The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science; Hegel and Christian Theology; and A Matter of Faith to the Readings page.

07-21-09
Added Jesus and His Death; Politics and Religion in the Modern World; The Formation of Christianity in Antioch; Christians and Muslims; The Road to Serfdom; The Cambridge Companion to Hayek; Jerome; Thanks!; The Arab Center; and Transforming Philosophy and Religion to the Readings page.

07-20-09
Added Theology as Queen of Hospitality to the Theology page. Added Alternative Possibilities and the Free Will Defence; and Can an Atheist Believe in God? to the Philosophy page. Added Did God Command Genocide?; and Yahweh Wars and the Canaanites to the Atheism page (both of these are responses to an earlier paper). Added The Other Freud; Shifting Sands; Luther and Erasmus; Romancing the Difference; Islamic Political Radicalism and Realized Religion to the Readings page.

07-19-09
Added Modern Era Marcionism: Critiquing The Sins of Scripture by John Shelby Spong to the Theology page. Added Targeted Killing in U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy and Law to the Politics page. Added The Argument from Miracles; Immanuel Kant’s Demythologization of Christian Theories of Atonement in Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone; and Divine Desire Theory and Obligation to the Philosophy page.

07-16-09
Added Murder in Amsterdam; Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice; Religion, Realism and Social Theory; Truth in Aquinas; and Reclaiming the Center to the Readings page.

07-14-09
Added Returning to Religion; Dreams of Glory; The Spirit of the Disciplines; Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves; The Philosophers' Quarrel; and Soul, Psyche, Brain to the Readings page.

07-09-09
Added The Elusive God; Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?; Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy; The Three Cultures; Evangelical Disenchantment; Time, Change and Freedom; Second Philosophy; Changing the Scientific Study of Religion: Beyond Freud?; Beyond the Bounds; and SuperSense to the Readings page.

07-07-09
Added The Tyranny of Liberalism; Natural Law and Liberalism: Can this Marriage be Saved?; The Young, the Good, and the West; Christianity, Enlightenment Liberalism, and the Quest for Freedom; The False Dilemma of Modernity; The Evolution Versus Religion Controversy: How Two Mystiques Devolved Into Politics; The Cultural Hostility to Religion; and Civil Theology in the Gnostic Age: Progress and Regress to the Politics page. Added What Darwinism Explains to the Science page.

07-04-09
Added The Depression Cure; Science & Faith; God, Evil, and Design; God, Science, and Humility; Tales of Wonder; and Thomas Aquinas on the Passions to the Readings page.

07-02-09
Added Knowing Christ Today; Rejecting Rights; Life in Rewind; Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Regulating Aversion; The First Paul; Living Together, Living Apart; Faith in Schools?; Freedom’s Orphans; and The Nature of New Testament Theology to the Readings page.

07-01-09
Added Faith in Search of Understanding; and The Paranormal, Miracles and David Hume to the Philosophy page. Added Writing History, Constructing Religion; God’s Democracy; Piety and Politics; In Defense of Kant’s Religion; and Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount to the Readings page.

06-29-09
Added The Perennial Problem of Evil; and How We Choose our Beliefs to the Philosophy page. Added Religion and Politics: The Case for their Divorce; and Undermining Democracy to the Politics page. Added Inventing the Crusades to the Religion page. Added Value-Sensitive Therapy to the Psychology page.

06-26-09
Added Religion and Science: Conflict or Harmony? to the Science page. Added Three Questions on Modern Atheism; The New Atheist Movement is Destructive; and Reason vs. Faith: the Battle Continues to the Atheism page. Added Muslim Strategies to Convert Western Christians; Apologists of Totalitarianism: From Communism to Islam; and Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam? to the Islam page. Added Groupthink in Academia to the Politics page. Added Skeptics without Borders; and Taking Skepticism Seriously to the Philosophy page. Added The Truth Rundown to the Religion page

06-22-09
Added Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television, and Politics; Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution; Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy of History; Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion; A Second Genesis; A Short History of Secularism; and Enlightment Against Empire to the Readings page.

06-18-09
Added a Blog to the site.

06-15-09
Added Evolution and Religion; Between Church and State; Intellectual Virtue; The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment; Modes of Faith; and The Enemy at the Gate to the Readings page.

06-12-09
Added Heirs to Fortuyn? to the Politics page. Added Climate Change Charades to the Science page. Added William Phelp's Paracletes, an Early Witness to Joesph Smith's Divine Anthropology to the Religion page. Added When Was the State of Nature? to the Philosophy page. Added Contemporary Iran; and Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy to the Readings page.

06-08-09
Added Darwin Loves You; Theology and Modern Physics; Guardians of the Revolution; Science and the Bible; Jesus, Interrupted; The God Part of the Brain; Universe or Multiverse?; and Thomas Paine to the Readings page.

06-04-09
Added Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals; Fields of Faith; Nature’s Clocks; Beyond the Revolution; Redescribing Christian Origins; Reason and Horror; Martin Luther; Orthodox Christian Theology; and Religion and the Challenges of Science to the Readings page.

06-03-09
Added Islam & the West: Testing the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Thesis; Reasons for Conversion to Islam Among Women in the United States; The Implicit Personality Theory of Islam; and “Scholarly Islam” and “Everyday Islam” to the Islam page. Added Pilgrims' Progress: Faculty and University Factors in Graduate Student Integration of Faith and Profession to the Psychology page. Added Original Methods Originalism; The Fallacy of Originalism; The End of Originalism; and Reconciling Originalism and Precedent to the Politics page.

06-02-09
Added Inside Hamas; Global Lies?; and The Anti Chomsky Reader to the Readings page.

05-28-09
Added Enlightenment’s Wake; Rousseau; God, Chance and Purpose; and Thoughts to the Readings page.

05-24-09
Added Shame and Philosophy; The Final Days of Jesus; Christianity and World Religions; The Narnian; First Principles; and Introducing Philosophy of Religion to the Readings page.

05-22-09
Added The Christian Nation Debate and Witness Competency to the Religion page. Added Is It Science Yet? to the Science page. Added Anti-realism, Theism and the Conditional Fallacy; and Why I Am a Relativist to the Philosophy page. Added The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness to the Psychology page.

05-18-09
Added Remembering Abraham; The Politics of Psychotherapy; After God; Hero of the Heartland; and The Social World of Jesus and the Gospels to the Readings page.

05-14-09
Added The Place of Natural Theology in Lutheran Thought to the Philosophy page. Added The Green Bubble to the Science page. Added The Constitutionalism of American States; Cold Terror; Boys of Few Words; and God’s Man for the Gilded Age to the Readings page.

05-10-09
Added The Theological Origins of Modernity; The Savage Text; and The God Strategy to the Readings page.

05-07-09
Added The End of Faith; Kierkegaard; The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition; Conceptions of Truth; and The Intelligibility of Nature to the Readings page.

05-06-09
Added The Beloved Disciple in Conflict?; From Genesis to Genetics; Heretic Lives; The Truth About Conservative Christians; Not In Our Classrooms; Terror; and The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate to the Readings page.

05-02-09
Added Why I Believe Again to the Atheism page. Added The Gospel of Thomas; and Reaching for the Invisible God to the Readings page.

04-27-09
Added Jesus Killed Mohammed to the Religion page. Added Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence? to the Islam page. Added Hard Truths; Bonds of Affection; Earthly Powers; God’s Secretaries; Revolutionary Characters; and The Family to the Readings page.

04-25-09
Added The Last Refutation of Subjectivism?; Nagasawa vs. Nagel; and Aquinas vs. Intelligent Design to the Philosophy page. Added Feeling Queasy About the Incarnation to the Psychology page.

04-24-09
Added Jewish Slavery in Antiquity; and The Really Hard Problem to the Readings page.

04-20-09
Added What God Has Joined Together?; Is God a Delusion?; Unholy Business; and The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology to the Readings page.

04-15-09
Added Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800; From Civil to Political Religion; Christianity and World Religions; The Blue Parakeet; Happiness; and A New Religious America to the Readings page.

04-10-09
Added Atheist Universe; The Psychopath; Making the Best of It; Judaism in the New Testament; and Reasons to Believe to the Readings page.

04-08-09
Added The End of Christian America to the Religion page. Added Evolution and the Ethical Brain to the Science page.

04-02-09
Added Unconquerable Nation; Life With God; Quoting God; Knowledge of God; Did My Genes Make Me Do It?; Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?; and Of Liberty and Necessity to the Readings page.

03-26-09
Added Rewriting the Soul; Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?; The Constitution of Agency; The Politics of Piety; God, Evil, and Human Learning; and Prescriptions for the Mind to the Readings page.

03-20-09
Added The Fire in the Equations; The Psychology of Religion; I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist; Between Faith and Unbelief; and Religion Without God to the Readings page.

03-16-09
Added There Is A God; and The Monk and the Book to the Readings page. Added Why Most Published Research Findings Are False to the Science page. Added Bioethics Today; and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: What's Wrong with It? to the Philosophy page. Added The Coming Evangelical Collapse; and the American Religious Identification Survey to the Religion page.

03-13-09
Added The Death of Christian Britain; Metaphysics and the Good; Augustine and His Critics; The Secrets of Judas; If Sons, Then Heirs; and The Spiritual Brain to the Readings page.

03-11-09
Added What the Skeptic Still Can’t Learn from How We Use the Word ‘Know’; and Husserl’s Transcendental Philosophy and the Critique of Naturalism to the Philosophy page. Added Uprooting Darwin's Tree to the Science page. Added Critiquing Free Speech; Political Correctness and Higher Education; Original Sin; Sir John Templeton; and History of Modern Philosophy to the Readings page.

03-06-09
Added The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self; The Weight of Things; Reasonable Faith; and Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-century Europe to the Readings page.

03-02-09
Added Seven; The Pursuit of Unhappiness; The Jesus Mysteries; Civil Democratic Islam; and ‘‘BelievingWomen’’ in Islam to the Readings page.

02-26-09
Added Why Every Christian Should ‘Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist’; and On What Could Quite Rightly Pass for a Fetish: Some Thoughts on Whether “Every Christian Should ‘Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist’” to the Atheism page. Added The Biology of Belief; and No Room for God? History, Science, Metaphysics, and the Study of Religion to the Science page. Added A Philosophical Refutation of Reductionism to the Philosophy page. Added The Holy Vote to the Readings page. Added Religious Doubt and Identity Formation: Salient Predictors of Adolescent Religious Doubt to the Psychology page.

02-23-09
Added The Great Omission; The Myths We Live By; Cartesian Reflections; Islam in Europe; Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality; and Thicker Than Oil to the Readings page.

02-19-09
Added While Europe Slept; Visible Thought; and Will Israel Survive? to the Readings page. Added Three Questions on Modern Atheism; and The New Atheism and the Spiritual Landscape of the West to the Atheism page. Added Culture and Psychopathology to the Psychology page.

02-18-09
Added Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World; The Open Secret; Immigration Policy and the Terrorist Threat in Canada and the United States; Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University; The French Revolution; The Early Reformation on the Continent; and The Hebrew Bible to the Readings page.

02-16-09
Added The Case for Religion; Evangelical Feminism; Blindside; Adult Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy; and Peace Process to the Readings page.

02-12-09
Added One Scripture or Many?; David Hume; What is Truth?; Understanding Jonathan Edwards; Modern Jihad; and Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics to the Readings page. Added Secularizations to the Religion page. Added Epistemic Humility, Arguments from Evil, and Moral Skepticism to the Philosophy page. Added Secular Humanism and Atheism Beyond Progressive Secularism; and The Plight of the New Atheism to the Atheism page.

02-10-09
Added Born Believers to the Science page. Added His Master's Angry Voice; and Refugee in his Own Country to the Islam page. Added Autism and the God Connection; The Gene Illusion; Joseph Smith Jr.; Persecution; My Jesus Year; and Belief in God to the Readings page.

02-01-09
Added Nietzsche; The Reflective Life; Masters of Illusion; Popes, Cardinals and War; The Illusion of Control; and The School of History to the Readings page.

01-31-09
Added John Calvin’s Ideas; Stephen Jay Gould; The War of Ideas; Constantine and the Christian Empire; Hume; Attachment and Dynamic Practice; Hidden Heritage; and Climate of Extremes to the Readings page.

01-28-09
Added Seeing and Believing to the Science page. Added From Dawn to Decadence; Rhetoric at the Boundaries; European Paganism; Barbarism and Civilization; The Making of Modern Europe, 1648–1780; and Christian Mystics to the Readings page.

01-26-09
Added The Evolution of Morality and Religion; Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender; Mormonism Explained; Racializing Jesus; War in Palestine 1948; and Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature to the Readings page.

01-23-09
Added The Age of Melancholy; and Revolution in Mind to the Readings page. Added Incommensurability, Incomparability, and God’s Choice of a World to the Philosophy page. Added Myths and Truths in Science and Religion: A historical perspective to the Science page.

01-21-09
Added Does the Advance of Science Mean Secularization? to the Science page. Added The Dawkins Letters to the Atheism page.

01-20-09
Added A Rumor About the Jews; Finding Darwin's God; The French Wars of Religion; Islam Unveiled; The Mind of Gladstone; Four Views on Free Will; Radical Enlightenment; By Design; Luke the Theologian; and A Controversial Spirit to the Readings page.

01-19-09
Added Darwin's Originality to the Science page. Added Where God and Science Meet - Vol. 1, 2, and 3 to the Readings page.

01-18-09
Updated all links on site.

01-14-09
Added Are We Hardwired?; The Psychology of Good and Evil; The Curse of the Self; and Religious Interests in Community Conflict to the Readings page.

01-12-09
Added Leaps in the Dark; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism; The Secular Bible; Science for Humanism; and Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe to the Readings page.

01-09-09
Added topic headings to the Readings page. Added Kepler’s Witch; The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual; Reason and Horror; The Trial of the Templars; and In Their Own Words to the Readings page.

01-06-09
Added Darwin’s Gift; Galileo in Rome; Bodies of Thought; Is Science Value Free?; God: The Failed Hypothesis; Science, Religion and the Meaning of Life; and The New Crusades to the Readings page.

01-03-09
Added The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality to the Science page. Added Beliefs About Life-After-Death, Psychiatric Symptomology and Cognitive Theories of Psychopathology; and The Church as Forgiving Community: An Initial Model to the Psychology page. Added America Alone; Young, Restless, Reformed; The Myths of Zionism; and The Holocaust and Antisemitism to the Readings page.

01-02-09
Added Theology and Social Theory; Revolutionary America; Immortality Defended; The Role of Religion in Marriage and Family Counseling; and Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics to the Readings page.

12-29-08
Added Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard; God's Continent; and Evidence and Evolution to the Readings page.

12-28-08
Added The French Revolution; and God in the White House to the Readings page.

12-27-08
Added Sexual Orientation, Mental Health, Gender, and Spirituality: Prejudicial Attitudes and Social Influence in Faith Communities; and Understanding the Role of Relational Factors in Christian Spirituality to the Psychology page.

12-14-08
Added The Mind of Jihad; The Future of Political Islam; Fields of Faith; and Genealogy of Nihilism to the Readings page.

12-09-08
Added Cartesian Dualism; Abraham's Dilemma; and Concepts, Dualism, and The Human Intellect to the Philosophy page. Added Design Inferences in an Infinite Universe to the Science page. Added Doubting Darwin?; Evangelicals and Science; and God and Reason in the Middle Ages to the Readings page.

12-06-08
Added Life is Evidence for an Infinite Universe to the Science page. Added The Left University to the Politics page. Added The Kingdom of God and the Church: A Baptist Reassessment to the Religion page.

12-05-08
Added new links to the Bookmarks page.

11-24-08
Added Faith and the Rhetoric of Religious Paradox: an Essay to the Religion page. Added Faith, Reason and the Existence of God; and Science and Religion to the Readings page.

11-23-08
Added Atheism Remix; The Birth of Science; Holy Hatred; Antisemitism; and The Future of Religion to the Readings page.

11-19-08
Added Jihad and Terrorism to the Islam page. Added Between Judaism and Christianity; and The Relationship of Political Evangelicalism to Critical Thinking and Selected Sociopolitical Values in 2007 to the Religion page.

11-14-08
Added Divided by God; and A Holy Secular Institution to the Religion page.

11-11-08
Added a debate on The God Delusion to the Atheism page.

10-22-08
Added The Problem of Evil; Questions of Faith; Arguing for Atheism; and God and Reason in the Middle Ages to the Readings page.

10-01-08
Added From Libido to Love: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Redemption of Sexuality; From the Shadow of the Object to the Shadow of the Almighty: A Story of the Almighty: A Story of Transformation; and Slouching Toward Integration: Psychoanalysis and Religion in Dialogue to the Psychology page. Added Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions? to the Science page. Added The Protestant Interest; Christianity and the Mass Media in America; Psychology and Religion; God and the Between; and From Babel to Dragomans to the Readings page.

07-08-08
Added Webs of Reality; Defending God; and How The West Was Lost to the Readings page.

06-21-08
Added Science and the Left to the Science page. Added Religious Beliefs & Behavior of College Faculty to the Religion page.

06-03-08
Added The Brain: A Mindless Obsession? to the Psychology page.

06-02-08
Added Pascal's Wager; Church and State in America; and Atheism and Theism to the Readings page.

05-20-08
Added Free Will, Art and Morality to the Philosophy page. Added Current Trends in Islamist Ideology - Volume 6 to the Islam page. Added Journey into Islam; Science, Religion, and Society; Islam at War; and God? A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist to the Readings page.

04-14-08
Added John Calvin’s Ideas; and People of Paradox to the Readings page.

04-13-08
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04-04-08
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03-29-08
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03-26-08
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03-20-08
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03-19-08
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03-03-08
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02-17-08
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02-02-08
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01-29-08
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01-14-08
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01-02-08
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11-27-07
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10-28-07
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09-22-07
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09-16-07
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09-13-07
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09-12-07
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09-06-07
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08-02-07
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08-01-07
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07-01-07
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05-27-07
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04-29-07
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04-15-07
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04-08-07
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03-05-07
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03-02-07
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02-24-07
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02-17-07
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01-21-07
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01-14-07
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01-07-07
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01-01-07
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12-10-06
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12-09-06
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12-06-06
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12-03-06
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11-26-06
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11-04-06
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10-29-06
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10-28-06
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10-27-06
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10-25-06
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10-24-06
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10-20-06
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10-10-06
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10-05-06
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10-04-06
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09-28-06
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09-05-06
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09-02-06
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07-29-06
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07-08-06
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07-06-06
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06-17-06
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06-01-06
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05-29-06
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05-25-06
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04-12-06
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04-05-06
Added The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, and Debunking the Newest – and Oldest – Jewish Conspiracy: A Reply to the Mearsheimer-Walt “Working Paper” to the Politics page.

03-29-06
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03-20-06
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03-14-06
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03-08-06
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03-07-06
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02-24-06
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02-21-06
Added A Lutheran’s Case for Roman Catholicism to the Religion page. Added Is Theism More Rational Than Agnosticism: A Critique of Arguments for the Necessary Existence of God? to the Atheism page.

02-08-06
Discontinued the News page and will start combining it with The Divine Conspiracy: The Blog of Solid Rock Ministries.

01-24-06
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01-20-06
Added Fundamentalism: A Theory to the Religion page.

01-19-06
Added Is Intelligent Design Science? Dissecting the Dover Decision to the Science page.

01-18-06
Added Theistic Evolution: A Christian Alternative to Atheism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design to the Science page. Added The Victory of Reason to the Readings page.

01-17-06
Added Religion, Divison, and the First Amendment; Religion in the Public Square: The Debate; and The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause to the Politics page.

01-03-06
Added Some Remarks on the 'Intelligent Design' Controversy to the Science page.

01-01-06
Added Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies to the Religion page. Added Did God Die in the Christian Century? to the Religion page. Added Doing Theology Without God? About the Reality of Faith in the 21st Century to the Theology page.