Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho (ngier006∂gmail.com) Note: Some data may be out-of-date. U.S. figures may well be worse. Read selected chapters of The Virtue of Non-Violence Peace is not just the absence of conflict; it is the presence of…
Violence in the History of Tibetan Buddhism
By Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho (ngier006∂gmail.com) Read a summary of Gier’s book The Origins of Religious Violence: An Asian Perspective at nfgier.com/1171-2 The tune of the flute changed to the song of the arrow. –The Fifth Dalai…
Canada Outsmarts Trump on Greenland and Tariffs
by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho Canada’s playbook transforms (Trump’s) tariffs from a tool of retaliationinto a (Canadian) lever of strategic resilience and foreign policy muscle. —The Canadian Press, July 13, 2025 Six months ago, the Danish government…
God, Reason, and the Evangelicals
University Press of America, 1987 (copyright held by author) by Nicholas F. Gier, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Idaho Ph.D. in philosophical theology at the Claremont Graduate University Coordinator of Religious Studies from 1980-2003 Note: Revision in progress; some…
God, Freedom, and Evil
from God, Reason, and the Evangelicals (Chapter Four) University Press of America, 1987 (copyright held by author) by Nicholas F. Gier, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Idaho Ph.D. in philosophical theology at the Claremont Graduate University Coordinator of Religious…
The Temptation of Belief
God, Reason, and the Evangelicals (Chapter 2) University Press of America, 1987 (copyright held by author) by Nicholas F. Gier, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Idaho Ph.D. in philosophical theology at the Claremont Graduate University Coordinator of Religious Studies…
God, Reason, and the Evangelicals
University Press of America, 1987 copyright held by author by Nicholas F. Gier, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Idaho Ph.D. in philosophical theology at the Claremont Graduate University Coordinator of Religious Studies from 1980-2003 Note: Revision in progress; some…
Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, and Rationalists
from God, Reason, and the Evangelicals, Chapter One Nicholas F. Gier, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Idaho Ph.D. in philosophical theology at the Claremont Graduate University Coordinator of Religious Studies from 1980-2003 University Press of America, 1987 copyright held…
Sexual “Perversion” Everywhere in God’s Creation
by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho One of Donald’s Trump’s first acts as president was to sign an executive order recognizing “two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible…
Tolerance for Trans People in South Asia
by Nick Gier, Idaho State Journal, December 10, 2021 “Seldom our society realizes the trauma, agony and pain which the members of the transgender community undergo. They are human beings, and they have every right to enjoy their human rights.”…