The Humanitas Forum

Pico Iyer travels the world.  His travel books include reflections on such exotic places as Kathmandu and Asunción.  His novels have been translated into Turkish, Russian, and Indonesian.  Yet, he’s not what you might expect.  He’s …

I don’t think, I skim!

“The internet is certainly changing the way that we get information.  Is it changing the way we think?”

Aimee Byrd is a mother of three and a good example of what all …

‘All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’  ~  Blaise Pascal

Several comments in the article quoted in the previous post remind of Pascal’s famous quote about the miseries of not being …

Texting, e-mail and posting promote a “flight from conversation.”

“We’re always communicating,” yet “we’ve sacrificed conversation for mere connection.”

These observations come from Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and M.I.T professor, who has spent the past 15 years studying the technologies …

American Christianity refuses to grow up.  “We’re all adolescents now!”

Beginning in the 1930s and ‘40s, a quiet revolution began in American churches.  It occurred in all segments of Christianity, but it has been most notably “successful” in the evangelical …

Even though Soul Searching was published in 2005, there is little reason to think that things have improved in the spiritual lives of American teens.  In fact, in a follow-up study, Souls in Transition:  The Religious and Spiritual Lives of …

All things old are new again. Or, so it would seem!

As I recently reread Peter Gay’s chapter on “The Era of Pagan Christianity,” I was reminded of a more recent book that reflects a similar sort of syncretism, …