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The typically strident atheist reveals a softer side.

A new book of essays on the meaning of Avatar, is a down-in-the-dirt wrestling match between those who resonate with it and those who hate a film that’s been labeled pro-civilization and anti-civilization, pro-science and anti-science, un-American and too American, feminist and misogynistic, leftist and neoconservative, and pagan, atheistic, theistic, and animistic.

What inspired you to write The Future of the Arab Spring? The Arab revolutions, which began in December 2010, were my most obvious inspiration. As someone who had worked on and long been obsessed with…

If you don’t want a culture war, don’t act like a culture warrior.

Form is fine but should we just forget substance?

That which does not kill Mark Driscoll simply makes him stronger.

Makes good headlines, but shouldn’t it be sound?

Maybe he’s all they’ve got.

Meditation is not religion, not spirituality—it’s a technology of upgrading the mind that can enrich one’s life, including one’s religious life. We’re used to the idea of physical fitness. Time to get used to the idea of contemplative fitness, and practice at least as diligently.