Search for Soul
In his new book, The Mind of God: Neuroscience, Faith and the Search for the Soul , neurologist Jay Lombard, and his…
Animal Minds
At every meal, we choose who lives and who dies. This is a fact at every meal, three times per day for most of us. … This eating experience may be…
Inequality of Conditions Remedy
Thomas Picketty, in Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2017) argues, with impressive documentation, that inequality is substantial and is…
Death Dinners
Talking about the universal human experience of death is a good thing. In the new book, Michael Hebb, Let’s Talk about Death Over Dinner: An Invitation and Guide to Life’s…
Sir Isaac Newton and George Fox: Geniuses and Jerks
As the title of his book, F. Freistetter, Isaac Newton: The Asshole Who Reinvented the Universe (Prometheus, 2018) indicates, Isaac Newton…
The International, but Not Universal, Criminal Court
This book offers us the dramatic story of the first trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague. The defendant Lubanga was a warlord in the Congo, charged with doing bad things. Lubanga was convicted of some bad things…
Reason is a Challenge for Quakers and Islam
Soulymane B. Diagne, Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition ( 2018) seeks to show the richness and…
Science
This author’s testimony, as described in A. D’Adamo, Science As Natural Theology …
Eat well, but not too much, and share generously
… In this book, Jonathan Crane, Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet , (2018), a Emory University author, brings…
Poor Candidates
In Nicholas Carnes, The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office-And What We Can Do About It (2018), the author wants the reader to…