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Joy Cometh in the Morning May. 17, 2024
Last Friday, 3,943 miles south of the North Pole, here in Macon, Georgia, the Northern Lights were v... Read More
Onward, Christian Soldiers Apr. 04, 2024
As I often do over the Easter holiday, I watched a film that has the crucifixion and resurrection of... Read More
The Cut Flowers Civilization Apr. 03, 2024
This week, famed atheist Richard Dawkins explained that he was a "cultural Christian." Praising his ... Read More
Will Africa Save America? Jan. 15, 2024
A century ago, the Catholic intellectual Hilaire Belloc wrote, "Europe is the faith." Today conserva... Read More
Theocracy's Foot in the Door Jun. 01, 2023
When the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled, in effect, that a high school football coach who led hi... Read More
Additional Scandal That an Already Challenged Catholic Church Cannot Afford May. 31, 2023
The Catholic Church has long seemed to assume a holier-than-thou moral authority that has never quit... Read More
West Virginia Lawmakers Are Pushing Public Schools To Teach Creationism May. 15, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
All you need to know about the current condition of West Virginia's public education system is summe... Read More
Taxpayers Have No Business Funding Religious Instruction in Public Schools Apr. 26, 2023
The Oklahoma Catholic Conference has fired the opening salvo in what promises to be a new front in t... Read More
The Midterm Boogeyman of 'Christian Nationalism' Oct. 14, 2022
The so-called Public Broadcasting Service is anything but a "service" to Republicans. Tune in any ni... Read More
'Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.' Should Result in Serious, Soulful Reflection for Those Attending Church Sep. 23, 2022
When "Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul." was released earlier this month, I read a lot of mixed reacti... Read More
A Reminder About the Moral Difference Between the Christian and Muslim Worlds at This Time Aug. 16, 2022
About 30 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for Muslims to murder Salm... Read More
Abortion, Democracy and History Jul. 27, 2022
When Abraham Lincoln gave his famous address in Peoria, Illinois in 1854, slavery was the issue tear... Read More
Hatpin Abortion Jul. 01, 2022
If my father hadn't died in 1987, he'd be 103. He grew up in a French Canadian immigrant neighborhoo... Read More
A Necessary Rebalancing Jun. 24, 2022
When our union first formed, many states had affiliations with various Christian denominations. Ther... Read More
The Greatest Event in History Apr. 15, 2022
Sometime slightly less than 2,000 years ago on a Friday, a carpenter's son stood silent before the f... Read More
The Beginning of the End Dec. 24, 2021
Sometime just over 2,000 years ago, contrary to the song, it was not a silent night. In Bethlehem, a... Read More
Calling Out So-called 'Prophets' Who Miscalled Trump's Election Victory Jul. 28, 2021
Evangelical groups are calling their own preachers to task for a spate of so-called prophecies ̵... Read More
Jews for Sale Jun. 17, 2021
Apparently, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who has been much in the news for his outlier comments on ... Read More
The Moral and Religious Case Against Unconditional Love Jun. 15, 2021
Unconditional love is neither biblical nor rational nor moral. Can you name anything good that is o... Read More
