Driving the polarization that characterizes our times is the conflation of conviction and certainty. If I believe it, it’s certain! Conviction is the strong belief that a behavior, idea, or ideology ...

When I encounter two leaders who are at each other’s throats, I find 100% of the time that they are both certain of their “facts”— yet one contradicts the other. How is that possible? It’s not.

If you're like most people, you rode into married life on powerful waves of affection and intimacy, waves that crashed occasionally into self-doubt and apprehension, only to rise again, stronger than ...

I have taught philosophy of religion for many years, and more times than I can count I have had students ask, “Where is the proof that God exists?” In my classes, I analyze arguments by putting them ...