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I am super duper pumped to share my conversation with Robert Wright. For a long time I have enjoyed Bob's podcast, books, and his new post-Trump newsletter. His return to the podcast follows my visit this past week on his own, which was a bunch of fun.

Here's a number of topics we tackle:

• Why Buddhism is True
• The problem with getting rid of prayers of confession from worship
• Why everyone could use a class in evolutionary psychology
• Western love of secular buddhism
• Robert asks Tripp about confirmation and facilitating experiments in truth
• What is a "wet baptist"?
• The role and desire of religious rituals
• Can religions leave competition behind? Can Christianity become a wisdom tradition?
• The New Agnosticism
• The hard problem of consciousness
• "purpose" in the story of evolution
• the possibility of moral progress
• how a simple theist may end up being more accurate than the New Atheists
• how Process theology's multiple ultimates gives a different way to connect eastern and western religious traditions
• the problem of religious pluralism and how to do solve it
• why I hope Bob talks with Simon Conway Morris

Want to check out more of Robert's work? Here's a few places to go.

• The video/podcasting network he started, BloggingHeads.TV
• The Mindful Resistance Newsletter (it is so good)
• His class on Buddhism and Modern Science
• Here's his lecture from Union Theological Seminary on the New Agnosticism
• Here's Robert's previous visit to the podcast from 2009

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