October 6th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Mystics are often thought to have little interest in the natural world, given their concern with the inner self. Many mystics, however, have had a profound sense of the beauty of creation
August 11th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
When it comes to questions about faith, theology, and God, AI technology can be dangerous
July 3rd, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
The theological foundations of sevā as sādhanā draw from two distinct yet interwoven strands of Hindu thought. One centers on guru- or god-oriented sevā and is mostly based on the Bhakti tradition
June 2nd, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Scientific advances have the potential to finally pull us out the philosophical rut we’ve been in with respect to animal minds for the entire history of human philosophical engagement
May 29th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Our old philosophical plumbing, as British philosopher Mary Midgley calls it, is not up for purpose anymore
May 1st, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
When we look back on history, we find in almost every culture some belief or other that commanded near-universal respect—that even acquired a kind of intellectual invulnerability—despite now seeming to us absurd. When future historians look back at our age, I think they will count reductive materialism among such beliefs
March 3rd, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
\"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance / How can we know the dancer from the dance?\"
February 24th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Western culture has changed in ways that provide less encouragement and space for any kind of sustained engagement with our experience
February 20th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense devotion between the warrior Jonathan and David, who later became king of Israel and Judah
January 20th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
In that moment, Martin Luther King Jr realized that the land of the free had imposed a caste system not unlike the caste system of India, and that he had lived under that system all of his life. It was what lay beneath the forces he was fighting in the
January 16th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
I know there is a group of nonvocal academics and scientists who have an interest in studying religion but do not have the time or resources. I usually ask people to study religion, not as someone with blind faith in a particular religion, but to engage in academic study of the religion before forming strong opinions about it
December 12th, 2024 | by Harmonist staff
If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch
