Robert Wright (meaningoflife.tv) wrote The Evolution of God, which considers what brings out the best or worst in religions based on a view that understands a moral growth of the Abrahamic God.

He is interested in the circumstances that brought out the best in religion in ancient times so that we can extrapolate to modern times to see what we need to get the best out of our religious landscape today.

Wright and and Tyler Cowen (George Mason Univ) duke it out in an interesting video interview.  Watch it and let me know what you think.

Does Wright’s non-zero sum God allow scenarios for peace and expanding horizons of hope for Christians today?  Please leave some comments below of anything that hit you while watching these two blogging heads discussing these issues.

The New York Times Religion Brief recently highlighted a survey by the American Religious Identification Survey that focused on the state of Judaism in the United States.

Of the 5 1/2 million people in the general Jewish population in the US, the majority consider themselves religious.

But the big surprise was the significant rise in one category of response in the landmark survey.  The finding makes Judaism and Christianity more alike than never before from one specific point of view. . . (more…)