Anyone reading this editorial, I would argue, is living in the mental world of, not postmodernism, but modernity (which many date from the eighteenth-century Aufkärung onward). I understand modernity as a world that cherishes (1)...

Question 1: The human world normally contains differences and conflict because of the variance of beliefs and traditions. The more absolutistic and exclusivistic such differences become, the more they are seen as threats. For...

I wish to offer a modest suggestion to my Muslim friends, namely, that when they wish to refer to the deity while writing or speaking English they use the English word “God” (or analogously in other European languages, such as...

There are myriad “definitions” of religion. Rather than wade through that “swamp,” here is offered a relatively “simple” description: “Religion is an ex-planation of the ultimate meaning of life, and how to live accordingly,...

In the dawning Age of Global Dialogue we humans are increasingly aware that we cannot know everything about anything. This is true for the physical sciences: No one would claim that she or he knows everything about biology,...

Ours in the West is largely a secularized society. However, especially after 9/11, we have become much more aware of the influence of religion—mostly bad in many people’s eyes. This, I believe, is a bum rap for authentic...

As I read Noam Cohen’s New York Times Op Ed essay “Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City” (March 29, 2009), based on Andrew Lih’s new book The Wikipedia Revolution about Wikipedia, comparing it to cities, I felt a bit like Yogi Berra’s...

According to twentieth-century cosmology, it all started with “The Big Bang”! Here we are 13,200,000,000 years later on a beautiful speck of stardust called Earth, spinning around one of trillions of stars called Sun. According...