I got a chance to watch Pinker lecture in front of the American Academy of Sciences on CSPAN last night: friggin delightfully farking brilliant...very smart and funny and convinced me to read The Stuff of Thought- the topic of his presentation. Fresh, informative, encyclopedic and did I say damned funny?

If we pursue a book about religion, I think we should read Ruether's Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History because it is comparative, historical, and it's polemic is an argument Booktalk rarely considers: how does the God discussion differ when we adress the Goddess instead?