The Piety That Lies Between: A Progressive Christian Perspective

"The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love." --Simone Weil

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Gay Rights and the Victory of Christian Values

There's been an astonishing cultural shift in the last few years, an amazing and accelerating change in attitudes towards homosexuality....

Friday, September 13, 2013

Universalism and the Argument from God's Love for the Blessed: Considering an Objection

In God’s Final Victory , John Kronen and I put forward a number of initial “prima facie” arguments for universalism as a starting point for...

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Simone Weil on Religion as a Social Structure

Academics who study religion will tend to focus on it as the sort of thing amenable to academic study. For neuroscientists this might mean a...

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

In 9/11's Shadow

Today there are Republicans and Democrats eyeing each other suspiciously across the aisle. Just as on any other day, we are polarized and ...

Monday, September 9, 2013

Salvaging Leviticus?

Maurice Harris, a progressive rabbi, has written what appears to be a fascinating new book: Leviticus: You Have No Idea . You can find exce...

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Surgery, Swimming, and War: What Does Diana Nyad's historic achievement have to do with Syria?

Thanks to my wife, I watched Diana Nyad's historic achievement this weekend--swimming from Cuba to Florida--through a more engaged and p...

Saturday, August 24, 2013

What Impedes the Dream Today?

This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the transformative March on Washington and Martin Luther King's famed "I Have a Dream...

Thursday, August 22, 2013

The Transforming Power of Grace Exemplified: The Case of Antoinette Tuff

A few months ago I offered the following remarks in a blog post, in answer to what Christians should think of Wayne LaPierre's idea that...

Sardines, Beondegi, and Not-My-Kind-of-Sex: The Irrelevance of Gag Reflexes

A recent essay at the Gospel Coalition , by Thabiti Anyabwile (Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman in the Grand Cayman Isl...

Monday, August 5, 2013

Family History

I'm in my childhood home for a few days, walking among the memories, the familiar paintings and photographs and objects laden with perso...

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About Me

Eric Reitan: Eric, an award-winning scholar and writer, teaches philosophy at Oklahoma State University. His first book, IS GOD A DELUSION? A REPLY TO RELIGION'S CULTURED DESPISERS, was named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2009. His other books include GOD'S FINAL VICTORY (co-authored with John Kronen) and THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN LOVE ETHIC, the science fiction novel, SO EDEN SANK TO GRIEF, and, most recently,TROUBLED PARADISE: LIMITED SALVATION AND THE PROBLEM OF HEAVENLY GRIEF.

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