The ISHV Cyber Think Tank is a digest of articles, interviews, and other musings compiled by Robert B. Tapp.

R. Joseph Hoffmann on the ways that Western modernism is unique – and viewed ambivalently in other cultures.read
Unitarian Universalists have new project on class and classism. read
David Breeden analyzes the Cheasters (those who only go to church on Christmas and Easter). “The people, not the priests, make the gods. Religions are the oldest open source software.” read
Nick Spencer’s Atheists – The Origin of the Species is reviewed by Julian Baggini, who agrees with many claims of the believer-author. “In the long run, however, the church is being slowly undermined by the critical powers of inquiry it helped unleash.” But Baggini concludes: “History can enrich our understanding of the debate, but it cannot settle it.” read
The Book of Miracles, a recently-rediscovered 16th-century writing, reviewed by Marina Warner. “The recurrence of miracles in the Bible meant that the Protestant reformers of the sixteenth century could not reject such wonders as superstitions in the way they scorned Catholic beliefs.” read
Austin Cline evaluates Christopher Partridge, New Religions. read
US is 16th in Social Progress. read