by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Idaho There has been much in the press these days about happiness. Since the 1950s, those who interview us have found little change in the number of those who are…
Palestinians Forced Out of Homes in the West Bank
by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho They despise Hamas and abhor violence. They want to live a normal life. —Israeli peace activist on West Bank Palestinians David Shulman—Israeli peace activist, renowned scholar of comparative religion (my field), and…
GLOBAL PEACE INDEX: NORWAY #1; USA #96
Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho (ngier006∂gmail.com) Note: Some data may be out-of-date.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…