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Faith and Reason

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Modernity’s Spell

Winter 2019 • Clare Coffey on why debunking mesmerism only made it stronger

Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?

Summer/Fall 2018

Encounter in the Vale

Spring 2018 • Jonathan Mosedale recounts a story of hiking, frailty, and glimpsing the divine

Faith and the Fear of Death

Spring 2018 • Jonathan Jong on confronting our mortality from the lab and the altar

Disenchantment, Actually

Winter 2018 • Doug Sikkema on how myths, true or false, shape the conditions of our experience

The Humble Scientist

Fall 2015 • Chase W. Nelson on the character and career of his late teacher, Austin L. Hughes

Faith, Fact, and False Dichotomies

Spring 2015 • Austin L. Hughes on the lazy atheism in Jerry Coyne’s new book

Modernity and Our American Heresies

Summer/Fall 2014 •

Peter Augustine Lawler explains how our Puritan and Lockean founders built better than they knew

The Optimistic Science of Leibniz

Spring 2014 • Marc E. Bobro on the Enlightenment thinker’s encyclopedic project of physics and faith

The Genius and Faith of Faraday and Maxwell

Winter 2014 •

Ian H. Hutchinson on how religion influenced the work of the two great nineteenth-century electricians

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