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BookC. Baxter Kruger
C. Baxter Kruger presents a relational and participatory account of salvation grounded in the Trinity and Christ's union with humanity. Sin appears as alienation, wounded perception, and life inside fear rather than actual separation from God; Christ enters human darkness to reveal and restore participation rather than persuading a distant or hostile Father.
Podcast EpisodeClear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Astrophysicist Adam Frank distinguishes the scientific case for widespread cosmic life from the much weaker case that reported UFOs are extraterrestrial visitors.
BookSallie Tisdale
Writer, nurse, and Buddhist practitioner Sallie Tisdale offers direct practical counsel for dying and accompanying someone who is dying. She addresses bodies, diagnosis, caregiving, communication, fear, pain, planning, last days, deathbed presence, grief, and the physical handling of a corpse, weaving clinical experience with Buddhist reflection and candid accounts of uncertainty, irritation, tenderness, and the limits of control.
Greg Eghigian
A global history of how flying-saucer reports, investigators, institutions, media, and public expectations produced the modern UFO phenomenon after 1947.
BookBruce Greyson
Psychiatrist Bruce Greyson reviews decades of research and clinical encounters involving near-death experiences, including recurring reports of leaving the body, altered time, light, beings, life review, peace, and lasting changes in values. He considers neurological, psychological, and survival interpretations while arguing that the reports deserve disciplined study rather than automatic dismissal.
BookLesley Hazleton
Journalist Lesley Hazleton defends agnosticism as an active stance of intellectual and spiritual openness rather than indecision awaiting a final answer. Blending memoir, history, philosophy, science, and religious observation, she resists both dogmatic belief and dogmatic disbelief, exploring mystery, mortality, awe, doubt, uncertainty, and the human impulse to make certainty protect us from the vulnerability of not knowing.
Podcast EpisodeDrew Jackson; Corey Wayne; Brian McLaren
Introduces an inhabitable alternative orthodoxy through conversation at much lower commitment than a theology book.
BookMichael W. Cuneo
Reports on American exorcism and deliverance cultures after extensive observation, placing their growth within media, institutional, and social change.
BookRichard Kearney
Philosopher Richard Kearney proposes anatheism—a return to the question of God after both inherited theism and confident atheism have been disrupted. Through philosophy, biblical stories, literature, art, hospitality, and interreligious reflection, he explores encounters with the stranger in which the divine may be received again without restoring the sovereign, certain, or coercive God that critique has made untenable.
Podcast EpisodeJim Stump; Colin Hoogerwerf
Connects archaeological and evolutionary accounts of Homo sapiens with questions about symbolic life, sacred landscapes, and relationship to the divine.
Podcast EpisodeGood Faith
Explores how Christians might respond theologically and pastorally if persuasive evidence of extraterrestrial life emerged.
BookAndrew Davison
A systematic theological study of how possible life elsewhere bears on creation, angels, the image of God, sin, incarnation, Christology, revelation, and salvation.
BookSarah Bakewell
Bakewell narrates existentialism through the lives, arguments, friendships, and conflicts of its major twentieth-century thinkers.
BookAtul Gawande
Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande examines how medicine, families, and institutions respond when cure is no longer possible and frailty makes independence harder to sustain. Through patients, clinicians, nursing homes, hospice programs, and his own father’s illness, he explores autonomy, safety, serious-illness conversations, assisted living, risk, caregiving, and the practical question of what makes life worth living near its end.
BookKathryn Schulz
Journalist Kathryn Schulz explores error as a basic human condition whose defining feature is that being wrong usually feels exactly like being right—until the moment a belief breaks against reality. Moving through philosophy, psychology, memory, perception, politics, love, grief, and comic failure, she examines why certainty is seductive, why error threatens identity, and how fallibility can produce curiosity, revision, empathy, and surprise.
BookAnil Seth
Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains consciousness through the brain's ongoing predictions about the world and the body. Perception, in his account, is a controlled construction constrained by sensory signals; the experienced self is likewise assembled through embodied processes rather than located in a single inner essence. He connects experiments, illusions, clinical cases, and theory while defending biological naturalism.
BookJohn Polkinghorne
Physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne argues that science and theology are distinct but intellectually related searches for truth. Drawing on the intelligibility and relational structure of the physical world, quantum theory, cosmology, divine action, and critical realism, he proposes that Christian belief can be rationally warranted without competing with scientific explanation or being reducible to a proof derived from nature.
BookMichael Shermer
A popular account of pattern detection, motivated reasoning, and how people form and defend beliefs.
BookGregory A. Boyd
Boyd distinguishes relational trust in God from psychological certainty about doctrines and interpretations.
BookSean Carroll
Physicist Sean Carroll moves from quantum fields, cosmology, and emergence to life, consciousness, morality, and meaning. He calls his framework ‘poetic naturalism’: there is one natural world, but multiple vocabularies can truthfully describe its higher-level patterns. The book argues that purpose and value can be constructed and real for human beings without being written into the universe by a supernatural source.
BookBruce H. Lipton
Bruce Lipton uses cell biology, epigenetics, and quantum language to argue that perception and belief powerfully shape biology. The book begins with real questions about gene regulation, then extends them into much broader claims about consciousness, energy, healing, and personal transformation.
BookRichard Dawkins
A forceful explanation of how cumulative natural selection can produce apparent design without a designing intelligence.
Podcast EpisodePlanetary Radio
Uses Adam Frank’s astrobiology book to discuss what scientists can responsibly infer about life and intelligence beyond Earth.
BookSimon Critchley
A witty philosophical gallery of how thinkers met death and what their endings suggest about living.
BookRoss Gay
Brief daily essays notice delight amid friendship, race, grief, gardens, public life, and ordinary vulnerability.
BookDalai Lama XIV; Desmond Tutu; Douglas Abrams
The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu discuss joy, suffering, compassion, humor, and practice across Buddhist and Christian lives.
Podcast ShowBrian Lehrer
BookStephen Hawking
A classic popular introduction to cosmology, black holes, time, and the search for a unified physical account.
BookOs Guinness
A Christian account of calling as response to God rather than career fit, achievement, or self-expression.
Podcast EpisodeBig Picture Science
Introduces the COSMIC search at the Very Large Array, science-fictional imagination, and the debate over deliberately transmitting messages to other civilizations.
BookIan Hutchinson
MIT nuclear scientist Ian Hutchinson answers questions students commonly ask about Christianity, science, evidence, miracles, natural law, prayer, consciousness, Genesis, evolution, and the resurrection. Written in a conversational question-and-response form, the book argues that modern science does not require scientism and that belief in divine action can be intellectually responsible when miracles are understood as unusual acts of God rather than violations caused by ignorance.
BookDonald D. Hoffman
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that evolution shapes perception for fitness rather than truth and develops that claim toward a theory of conscious agents and reality.
BookKaren Armstrong
Historian of religion Karen Armstrong argues that premodern religious language was primarily practical, symbolic, and apophatic rather than a set of literal propositions competing with science. Moving across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Greek philosophy, mysticism, reform, modernity, and contemporary atheism, she traces how God-talk became increasingly treated as factual explanation and proposes a return to disciplined practice, myth, compassion, and acknowledged unknowing.
Podcast ShowSociety of Catholic Scientists
Working scientists describe how research, vocation and Catholic belonging coexist, adding lived professional voice to concept-heavy science shelves.
Podcast ShowSanta Fe Institute hosts
BookDavid J. Chalmers
Chalmers develops the “hard problem” of consciousness and argues that subjective experience is not explained by functional accounts alone.
BookDavid Whyte
Short poetic essays reopen familiar words such as longing, regret, forgiveness, work, and withdrawal.
Podcast EpisodeWonderology
Fine-tuning questions are heard as scientific limits and philosophical possibilities rather than a proof text. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
BookCarl Sagan
A panoramic account of cosmic history, scientific inquiry, and humanity’s place in the universe.
BookPaul Tillich
Tillich interprets courage as the affirmation of being amid anxiety, guilt, meaninglessness, and the threat of nonbeing.
BookDenis Alexander
Denis Alexander surveys genetics, evolution, Genesis, and divine action to argue that Christians need not choose between creation and evolutionary science.
BookPeter Enns
Peter Enns uses memoir, biblical scholarship, humor, and constructive theology to describe faith after inherited explanations of God and Scripture stop accounting for lived experience. Rather than resolving each disruption, he explores how unexpected turns can expose the limits of a tightly managed God and open a less certain, more spacious Christian trust. The book gathers themes from Enns's earlier work into a personal account of change rather than a systematic theology.
BookSamuel Scheffler
Scheffler’s philosophical lectures ask why humanity’s continued existence after our own deaths matters to meaning, value, and practical reason.
BookTom Nichols
Nichols examines distrust of expertise, information abundance, and the civic consequences of treating informed judgment as merely another opinion.
BookLeo Tolstoy
A short novel in which an ordinary successful life is exposed by illness, fear, isolation, and death.
Podcast EpisodeKerry Campbell
Fills a Catholic-specific recognition gap in a compact solo episode.
Podcast EpisodeSway; Jonathan; Caro
Adds culturally situated recognition missing from the white ex-evangelical default.
BookCarl Sagan; Ann Druyan
Astronomer Carl Sagan, with Ann Druyan, defends scientific skepticism as a public discipline for distinguishing well-supported claims from error, fraud, and wishful thinking. Through discussions of UFOs, alien abduction, pseudoscience, education, media, and the history of scientific inquiry, the book develops a ‘baloney detection kit’ while arguing that wonder and rigorous doubt need not be enemies.
BookErnest Becker
Cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker argues that awareness of mortality creates an existential terror humans manage through symbolic worlds, heroic identities, social status, religion, romance, work, and imagined participation in something enduring. Drawing heavily on psychoanalysis, existential thought, anthropology, and Otto Rank, he interprets personality and culture as organized defenses against creatureliness, vulnerability, dependence, and death.
BookAlvin F. Kimel
This collection develops a Christian case for universal salvation through figures including Isaac the Syrian, Julian of Norwich, George MacDonald, Sergius Bulgakov, and David Bentley Hart.
BookBrian P. Levack
A history of possession and exorcism that asks how religious cultures supplied the scripts through which afflicted people and their communities understood and enacted possession.
BookMary Oliver
A career-spanning poetry collection whose sustained attention to creatures, mortality, wonder, and ordinary life rewards repeated return.
BookGeorges Bernanos
A novel of an ill, isolated young priest whose apparent failure and hidden grace expose the loneliness of vocation.
Podcast EpisodeBart Ehrman; Megan Lewis
Separates later Christian hell imagery from the historical questions surrounding Jesus’ own apocalyptic language.
BookWilkie Au; Noreen Cannon Au
The authors integrate Ignatian discernment with psychological insight about desire, freedom, attachment, and inner conflict.
BookPriscilla Shirer
Shirer presents a conservative evangelical approach to recognizing divine guidance through Scripture, prayer, obedience, and attentiveness.
BookHenri J. M. Nouwen
Drawn from Henri Nouwen’s writings and course materials after his death, this volume presents Christian discernment as sustained attention to God through Scripture, prayer, community, desire, memory, relationships, suffering, and events. Rather than promise a private code for extracting divine instructions, it asks readers to notice recurring interior movements and to interpret a life’s direction within practices of patience, gratitude, compassion, and faithful action.
BookNicholas Saunders
Saunders examines models of divine action in relation to physics, causation, and theological claims.
BookRichard Rohr with Mike Morrell
An accessible presentation of the Trinity as relational flow and participation rather than an abstract doctrinal puzzle.
BookCharles Hartshorne
A classic process-philosophical account of a God who is both absolute and genuinely related to a changing world.
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