Robert W. Fuller identified the malady of rankism in Somebodies and Nobodies and described how dignitarian societies overcome it in All Rise. With Pamela A. Gerloff he co-wrote Dignity for All - the handbook for building the Dignity Movement. Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship? and The Rowan Tree: A Novel are most recent books.
[This is the second post in the series Why Everything You Know about Your “Self” Is Wrong. The series explores how our understanding of selfhood affects our sense of individuality, our interpersonal relationships, and our politics.] In the first post in this series, we disentangled the notion of selfhood from the body, the mind, and…
[This is the first post in the series Why Everything You Know about Your “Self” Is Wrong. The series explores how our understanding of selfhood affects our sense of individuality, our interpersonal relationships, and our politics.] Confusion about fundamental notions such as selfhood, identity, and…
It may be an exaggeration to say that as Chinese-American relations go, so goes the world, but it’s probably not far from the mark. I’m not only thinking of China’s and America’s common interest in avoiding war on the Korean peninsula, but looking ahead to…
Live your life as if there are no miracles and everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein Crisis in Religion A spate of bestsellers—The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins; The…
[This is the 20th and last in the series. All twenty posts have been collected into a free eBook which can be downloaded at Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship?]…
[This is the 19th in the series Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship.] As prophets in every religion have tried to tell us, humankind is one big extended family. The…