The Lyre of Orpheus
James Croft, Matt Whiteley, Hesara GunaratnaHumanism, enchantment, and the art of tuning a life.
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Star Trek as Humanist Scripture
People love Star Trek.
Sixty years is a long time for a tv show to matter. Most shows entertain a generation, and then disappear. Star Trek did something stranger: it became a shared moral vocabulary. For sixty years, people have used the...
Matt Whiteley and James Croft talk Humanism, Christianity, whether we need religion for morality, and inexhaustible joy!
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Does Death Make Life Meaningless?
A reflection on finitude, meaning, Martin Hägglund, and Robert Frost’s Nothing Gold Can Stay.
If our lives end, and eventually everything we make disappears, does that mean none of it really matters? I think the opposite.
Hesara Gunaratna and James Croft Talk Gooodman, Pragmatism, Irrealism, and Brawlhalla
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Restless Fire
Sometimes my students convert. Usually it’s not dramatic: the long, withdrawing roar of a faith gradually forgotten as time and circumstance make it feel less urgent. Or, a slow enculturation into a different community, one encountered for...
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First Humanist to lead a UK university chaplaincy. Pragmatist philosopher with transcendentalist leanings. Cambridge, Harvard, Sussex. Writing about humanism, enchantment, and the art of tuning a life. Husband to Kolten, dog-dad to Ella.
Bid you remember of this world unstable.
"The only principle that doesn't inhabit progress is: anything goes" (Feyerabend, 1975, p. x).
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