From a special issue of Religions on spirituality and health, Jeremy P. Cummings and Kenneth I. Pargament (BGSU): Medicine for the Spirit: Religious Coping in Individuals with Medical Conditions; Arndt Bussing (Witten) Harold G. Koenig (Duke): Spiritual Needs of Patients with Chronic Diseases; and Carol J. Lysne (ITP) and Amy B. Wachholtz (UMass): Pain, Spirituality, and Meaning Making: What Can We Learn from the Literature? From Homiletic & Pastoral Review, Kevin G. Rickert on the divine will and human freedom: A Thomistic analysis. The introduction to Collectivistic Religions: Religion, Choice, and Identity in Late Modernity by Slavica Jakelic. Why do prayers go unanswered? Adam Hamilton looks at the question you've always been afraid to ask. Are coincidences so great that God must be responsible? The birth of religion: We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion — now the world’s oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization. Finding the sacred in the secular: Can atheists be spiritual? Atheists and religious fanatics are equally wrong about God, argues William Egginton in In Defense of Religious Moderation. Did god create the laws of physics? Richard Elliott Friedman and Shawna Dolansky on the Bible: As relevant (and misunderstood) as ever. The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality sends word of a new monograph that minimizes modesty: “The Patriarch’s Nuts: Concerning the Testicular Logic of Biblical Hebrew” by Roland Boer. Howard Kainz on secularism’s victory through osmosis.
