Joss Whedon was recently honored with the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism at Harvard University. Part of his acceptance speech is below (link).

If you know me, you know that I’ve been a long-time admirer of Whedon as a creator, thinker, and activist as well as a fan of his work, particularly Firefly/Serenity and [...]

This essay was my senior thesis for my religious studies B.A. I decided to focus on Native American spirituality because of a course I took that fall with Jacquelyn Bralove, who had lived and worked on the Navajo reservation for five years. (This led to my time spent volunteering on the reservation for the next [...]

I just finished the final book in the Harry Potter series. It’s a fitting ending to a great series. Regardless of your opinions of the books themselves, I find it hard for anyone to think of Rowling’s work and not also think: “What a great thing she’s done for kids” … in at [...]

I love it when some clever person finds a way to represent complex data in a unified, visual form. “Similar Diversity” is an exhibit that attempts to do that with the scriptures of the major world religions (courtesy of information aesthetics).

I just wish I could find a larger image so I could try to [...]

If you haven’t already seen it, there’s a great article in the New York Times’ Magazine called “Darwin’s God.” It spells out the various sides of an ongoing scientific debate about why religious beliefs are so pervasive across time and culture. It’s long, but well worth the read.
Here’s my diigo highlights and annotations.

On the list of things you’re not supposed to talk about on a first date, religion sits at number one … and for obvious reasons. Disagreements can get nasty and irrational, and in most cases, nobody is going to say anything original anyway–much of the talk that surrounds the topic is poorly-imitated and poorly-informed [...]

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