Uncategorized “…if nature offers a moral standard by which we can measure ourselves, and a set of values to which we should aspire, exactly what sort of values are they?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 May 2015 Implicit here is the idea that nature is a repository of abiding moral and...
Uncategorized “Once you designate some spaces as safe, you imply that the rest are unsafe” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 May 2015 Some people trace safe spaces back to the feminist consciousness-raising groups of the 1960s...
Uncategorized “…many scholars of illuminated Haggadot have been victims of interpretive paralysis, and that their work is often disappointing” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 May 2015 …Marc Michael Epstein calls attention to a problem in art history scholarship that he...
Uncategorized “…a church can have a sleek logo and Web site, but if it’s judgmental and exclusive, if it fails to show the love of Jesus to all, millennials will sniff it out” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 May 2015 …a church can have a sleek logo and Web site, but if it’s judgmental...
Uncategorized “The dynamic tension of the particular and the universal is woven into the very fabric of being human” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 April 2015 The human person, the figure at the center of the very idea of human...
Uncategorized “Is it really such a big deal if you tell everyone how fat you feel?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 March 2015 Is it really such a big deal if you tell everyone how fat you...
Uncategorized “The humanistic methods that were practiced before digitalization will be even more urgent after digitalization…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 March 2015 The day is approaching when the dream of the democratization of knowledge — Borges’s...
Uncategorized “Now is the time for religious leaders to show the world a face of religion that respects the dignity of all humankind and promotes peaceful coexistence” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 March 2015 We keep saying the war against terrorism is a war against radical Islam, not...
Uncategorized “…New Atheism tends to simply baptize the opinions of young, educated white men as the obviously rational approach to complicated socio-political problems” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 February 2015 …a persistent problem with the New Atheist movement: Because it is more critical of...
Uncategorized “Like any number of global faiths, New Atheism presumes its framework and considers its truth-claims to be either self-evident or demonstrable by whatever means it already assumes legitimate” Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 February 2015 Like any number of global faiths, New Atheism presumes its framework and considers its...