MeaningofLife.tv: Conversations@Union

Bob and Pam team up to analyze the mind of Trump ... Inside the mind of a narcissist ... Narcissists are made not born ... Psychoanalyzing Trumpism ... A moment of compassion for Trump ...

Jesus, Buddha, Roger and Paul: friends in conversation ... How do you say "nirvana" in Christian? ... The perennial philosophy ... Religious pluralism as a political imperative ... Why Paul will not live for eternity (and Roger will) ... When Christian mysticism feels pretty Buddhist ...

What is Confucianism? ... Living with both a Confucian and a Christian identity ... Wisdom accumulates slowly ... The power (and difficulty) of radical love ... Melancholic freedom and existential angst ... Finding and losing meaning in the scientific age ...

Clergy as front-line therapists for parishioners ... Personal guilt about God's judgment ... Using faith to counter a traumatic religious upbringing ... Neoliberal capitalism and its discontents ... A psychological reading of the Christian Trinity ... Are humans making spiritual progress? ...

How personal trauma inspired David’s book on trauma and the Bible ... Ancient Israel’s transition from polytheism to "monolatry" ... The Babylonian exile and the birth of Abrahamic monotheism ... The link between trauma and God’s covenant with Israel ... Why the crucifixion of Jesus shocked his followers ... Why have Biblical texts survived? ...

A Catholic questions whether Jesus is the "one and only savior" ... How Paul integrates Buddhism and Christianity ... Paul: Jesus, like the Buddha, "fully woke up" ... How "interbeing" leads to loving thy neighbor ... Meditation, the Eucharist, and the feeling that "all is well" ... Paul: Peace in the world starts with peace within yourself ...

Parallels between Christianity and Africa’s Diola religion ... Essential Diola ritual practices ... How economics caused the French Imperial powers to suppress the Diola tradition ... The land as a "living being" ... Aliou’s path to Christianity via Diola and Sufi traditions ... Reading Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians from a Diola perspective ...

Paul Tillich's conception of God as "the ground of being" ... Viewing the Christian tradition as symbolic, not literal ... Tillich's engagement with Eastern mysticism ... How Tillich wrestled with the problem of evil ... Tillich's recasting of the idea of divine revelation ... Is there consolation in Tillich's view of death? ...

Why Jerusha doesn't call her path to Islam a "conversion" ... Jerusha: In Islam, science and belief are not in opposition ... Constructing a Muslim feminist theology ... Taqwa, the egalitarian idea of "God consciousness" ... What the Koran says about the salvation of non-Muslims ... Female Muslim scholars are between a rock and a hard place ...

The Hindu idea that you are one with the universe ... Moral implications of this idea of oneness ... How different are Hindu and Buddhist philosophy? ... Grappling with the Buddhist doctrine of "emptiness" ... Connecting Hindu belief with the Christian Trinity ... John: No, believers are not all “climbing the same mountain ...

A brief history of liberal theology ... Does "theologically liberal" mean "politically liberal?" ... When theologians appeared on the cover of Time ... The long lineage of identifying God with "being" ... Hegel's idealism and the Christian logos ... Challenges from neo-orthodoxy and liberation theology ...