Karen Armstrong on "Fresh Air"

Terry Gross of "Fresh Air" is one of my favorite all time interviewers and yesterday she featured Karen Armstrong on her show. A transcript can be found here and a link to the audio is here. Armstrong has a new book out called The Case for God. I enjoyed the interview in which Armstrong came out sounding very much like a Unitarian-Universalist. I am very tempted to make the book my next reading project - it sounds very much like it espouses the type of religious faith I have been writing about here for a while: pluralistic and without compromising modern scientific knowledge. I think the half of the folks who put down "none" as their religion but still hold on to some form of "God," mentioned by James McGrath today, would find her view welcoming too.

Her basic point about science and religion is that they are very different types of knowledge with very different aims and are not incompatible. Anyway, a nice interview and if I get the book and read it I'll blog on it and her ideas in more detail.