I first encountered the name of Marilynne Robinson when I read her review of Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion for Harper’s Magazine in November 2006. I had heard about the book but hadn’t read it at that time and found her review annoying. It was not because she [Read more…]
A new Pew survey finds that the rates of intermarriage between ethnic groups has more than doubled to 15% from just 6.7% in 1980.
Is more intermarriage good for society? More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) say that more people of different races marrying each other has been a change for the better [Read more…]
I have argued in my series of posts on Why Atheism Is Winning that religion is in decline and that atheism is on the rise even in the US. However, the last bastion of religion is likely to be rural America where the church is [Read more…]
That Mitchell and Webb Look retells the familiar story of the good Samaritan in a way that I think will appeal to the editors [Read more…]
The Catholic hierarchy and the Republican party are digging in their heels in their opposition to health insurance companies being required to provide contraception coverage to all their employees, and even extending their stand to opposing insurers providing employees with anything the employer finds morally objectionable.
They think they can win this by framing it as an issue [Read more…]
An interesting discussion has broken out in the comments section of the post The weak historical evidence for Jesus that is related to the question of where the burden of proof lies when promoting or refuting a claim.
Those who started reading my blogs only after I moved to Freethought Blogs have been (so far at least) mercifully spared the many multi-part series on some topics that those [Read more…]
Who amongst us hasn’t said at some point, “Dang! Somebody should do something about the fact that the Bible is way too liberal“? If you are one, then your prayers have been answered.
There has come into being something called the Conservative Bible Project, an open-source endeavor by those who feel that all prior translations of the Bible suffer from serious distortions due to liberal infiltration, and [Read more…]