Defense Spending Bill Shields Boy Scouts from Consequences of Bigotry
Monday December 26, 2005
The Christian Right's desire to ensure that the Boy Scouts of America are able to practice bigotry, hatred, and discrimination without social or legal consequences is being given a big Read More...
Christian History: Pelagian Heresy
Monday December 26, 2005
One of the central and fundamental disagreements between humanism and Christianity lies in the very nature of humanity itself. Are human beings inherently good or inherently evil? Indeed, this conflict Read More...
Questioning the Value of Tradition
Monday December 26, 2005
The Christmas season is a time when traditions and traditional practices become especially important both in families and in public generally. There is a tendency to defer to traditions that Read More...
Christian Supremacists Going After Public School, Homeschooling
Monday December 26, 2005
Three decades ago, no one would have imagined the Southern Baptist Convention having moved as far to the right as it is today, now that it's been taken over by Read More...
This Date in History: Raelians and Cloning
Monday December 26, 2005
December 26, 2002: According to Brigitte Boisselier, a chemist and CEO of Clonaid, on this day the first cloned human being was born. Clonaid is a company created by the Read More...
Christianity & Violence: Filling Heaven, Not Earth (Book Notes: The Crusades)
Monday December 26, 2005
The aim of Christianity is not to fill the earth, but to fill heaven. Why should one worry if the number of Christians is lessened in the world by deaths Read More...
Jesus and the Apocalypse
Monday December 26, 2005
Book of the Day: Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet, by Bart D. Ehrman.
Who was Jesus? Biographies of him are plentiful and arouse intense passion among authors and readers - more so than Read More...