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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