This book begins with a few simple questions. How does God become real for people? How are sensible people able to believe in an invisible being who has a demonstrable effect on their lives? And how ...

When it comes to small talk, Charlamagne tha God isn’t a fan. That’s the premise of his new book “Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks.” “Say what’s on your mind! You know what you’re here ...

In his recently published book The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism (The Jewish Publication Society) prominent modern Orthodox theologian Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg explores the ...

In the church culture I grew up in, one of the last topics we wanted to talk about was sex. In fact, in college our standing joke was coming up with over-the-top ice-breaker questions: "Okay, let's go ...

They talk about working with someone’s “God-concept,” and the way that people’s experience of God can be inhibited if they did not experience their own fathers as loving. They talk about learning to ...

This is a longer version of an essay published in The New York Times on Dec. 14, 2012. Recently I had quite an interesting conversation about the nature of God. I am an anthropologist, and in recent ...