In recent years, with mounting popular interest in the philosophy of the Kyoto School, scholarship and digital resources on the ideas of these Japanese philosophers has grown significantly. Many find themselves drawn to Keiji Nishitani and, in particular, his great work Religion and Nothingness. The following is a list of…

The following essay was originally published on November 27, 2023 as a featured article in Process Perspectives 44, a newsmagazine from the Center for Process Studies. One of the most striking positions of the process theological tradition, from Whitehead up through contemporary process thinkers, is its rejection of the traditional…

Since about the beginning of September, I’ve been going through easily one of the most traumatic and disorienting periods of my adult life. A situation entirely of my own making to be sure, though orchestrated much more by the clinging, reactive, and yearning part of my soul than by the…

I was recently tagged in an online discussion where the claim “Christianity has been metamodern for 2,000 years” was being debated. I thought this was an interesting and potentially important topic, so here are my thoughts on the matter. I don’t think it makes sense to call early Christianity metamodern…

What justifies a life? On Wednesday, October 18th, a local friend of mine passed away. A mere two nights prior I had spent some intimate time together with him — the only time the two of us had intentionally gotten together one-on-one just to hang out and chat — and…

I was reminded last night that our lives are not in fact for us. We have been given the entirely unearned gift of existence itself — nothing could be more precious. Yet how can we possibly fully embody gratitude for something such as this? I think through no other path…

One of the points on which the modern and postmodern paradigms are in fact united — though they appear as mirror images of one another — is the power of definitions. …

It’s beautiful how fasting truly brings everyone to the same station of struggle during Ramadan. Whether one has achieved worldly success or one is still fighting to find comfort in life, they are both brought together in this spiritual striving. The gaps created by all sorts of divisive identities of…

I’ve recently been reading this book, Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology, where process theologian David Ray Griffin and scholar of religion/Perennialist Huston Smith go back and forth, hashing out the differences between their perspectives. One of the points they dwell on most significantly, unsurprisingly, is questions of theodicy and as…