Christians aren’t perfect, and they don’t pretend to be. Rarely, though, do you get to see Christians acknowledging that their evangelism is similarly imperfect and sometimes even hurtful to others. That’s what makes this site extraordinary. No one who posts… Continue Reading
I’m going to listen to a biography of Jefferson on CD over the next week and I hope to learn more about one of the most interesting figures in all of history. Yesterday’s meditation upon the Declaration of Independence only… Continue Reading
The police department in Tayside, Scotland was handed an unsolicited shitstorm recently when it circulated the poster illustrated to the left to advertise its new phone number for non-emergency calls. Now, if you ask me, it’s a perfectly nice, if… Continue Reading
The premise: Jesus and Mohammed share a bed (but they don’t have sex) and hang out at a pub with a sarcastic atheist barmaid. It’s deliciously blasphemous. A sample:Go read them all; the first one (from November of 2005) is… Continue Reading
It seems some local churches are organizing, and maybe even leading, efforts to organize voters to pass the anti-gay marriage amendment on the ballot this November. Me, I wonder whether this activity would cause the churches to forfeit their tax-exempt… Continue Reading
For those who follow stories about religion, this could be quite interesting. President Bush, on his European “farewell tour,” met with Pope Benedict XVI and their meeting included a half hour meeting in the Tower of St. John, whose gardens… Continue Reading
Many have made this point before me. But adherence to irrational supernatural beliefs can be deadly. Like when mobs go after “witches.” Not black-hat-and-broomstick witches like you’d see at Halloween or in a Harry Potter movie, but animistic witches, practicing… Continue Reading
One wonders what exactly is involved with getting a private school accredited. One would hope that the content of a school’s curriculum would be examined carefully. But, I suspect, that accrediting agencies probably just look over the lists to see… Continue Reading
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal participated in an impromptu Catholic exorcism on a college classmate that coincidentally faith-healed her skin cancer. Read all about it here — Jindal and his other friends thought she was acting funny. And she smelled of… Continue Reading
The Wife pointed out that my Marriage Hypothetical post was confusing. A fair criticism — I took a background that will look like a law school exam and used it to pose normative questions. Of course, I was trying to… Continue Reading