Homebrewed Christianity

Robert Wright: From Mindful Resistance to the New Agnosticism


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I am super duper pumped to share my conversation with Robert Wright. For a long time I have enjoyed Bob's podcast, books, and his new post-Trump newsletter. His return to the podcast follows my visit this past week on his own, which was a bunch of fun.

Here's a number of topics we tackle:

  • Why Buddhism is True
  • The problem with getting rid of prayers of confession from worship
  • Why everyone could use a class in evolutionary psychology
  • Western love of secular buddhism
  • Robert asks Tripp about confirmation and facilitating experiments in truth
  • What is a "wet baptist"?
  • The role and desire of religious rituals
  • Can religions leave competition behind? Can Christianity become a wisdom tradition?
  • The New Agnosticism
  • The hard problem of consciousness
  • "purpose" in the story of evolution
  • the possibility of moral progress
  • how a simple theist may end up being more accurate than the New Atheists
  • how Process theology's multiple ultimates gives a different way to connect eastern and western religious traditions
  • the problem of religious pluralism and how to do solve it
  • why I hope Bob talks with Simon Conway Morris

Want to check out more of Robert's work? Here's a few places to go.

  • The video/podcasting network he started, BloggingHeads.TV
  • The Mindful Resistance Newsletter (it is so good)
  • His class on Buddhism and Modern Science
  • Here's his lecture from Union Theological Seminary on the New Agnosticism
  • Here's Robert's previous visit to the podcast from 2009
  • Here's the conversation I had with Robert the day before on his podcast Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community.

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