When Skeptics Collide
It seems that skeptics love other skeptics – up until the point such skeptics becomes skeptical of something that other skeptics accept. Massimo Pigliucci is a skeptic, philosopher (meaning he teaches...
View ArticleOn Being a Patriot / Political Ecology
This is a post I started writing–at least in my head–several years ago, when we had a different administration and different issues to argue about. However, in spite of the stark differences between...
View ArticleUnderstanding Liberals and Conservatives
I’ve had my own thoughts about the differences between liberals and conservatives for a few years; and have blogged about it occasionally. It has seemed to me, as I read and listen to debates on...
View ArticleReview: Waiting for Superman
This past weekend I went to see Waiting for Superman, the documentary about the failing American public school system. Knowing that the director also did Al Gore’s movie, I was fully prepared to by...
View ArticleMartin Luther on the current state of over-sensitivity
“The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything of ours is not approved of, we cry out that we are being...
View ArticleRob Bell’s confession of faith
This is worth sharing, considering all of the hoopla about Rob Bell’s book Love Wins: Thanks to Scot McKnight for sharing this.
View ArticleWhatever became of sin?
In 1973 Dr. Karl Menninger wrote a little book with the provocative title, Whatever Became of Sin?, in which he questioned the disappearance of right and wrong from psychiatry. It was a good question...
View ArticleIt’s Football, People!
Okay, already I’m sidetracked. But, I just can’t help myself. About two thousand years ago, Jesus told a story: Two guys walk into a synagogue. One stands up and makes a big deal about praying in...
View ArticleWinning Proves Nothing
Why it doesn’t matter if your candidate wins First, let me just say that in spite of the fact that I have strong personal feelings about who I don’t want to be President (yes, you read that correctly),...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to Christmas
This post is inspired in part by the recent school shootings, in part by an article I read this past week, and partly by this Sunday’s sermon. As I struggled to read through the news over the past...
View ArticleWhy I Like Conservatives
Before you read this post, read Why I Like Liberals. Like I said in the previous post, I lean conservative, but I’m not an “across the board” conservative, and am by no means an ultra-right-winger. Of...
View ArticleWhy the Supreme Court is Right about Same-Sex Marriage
Over the past couple of days I’ve read a lot of stuff about Friday’s Supreme Court decision on the Obergefell case. Some of what I’ve read has been thoughtful, but to be honest, much of it hasn’t. I...
View ArticleGuns and Dodgeball
I, like many others, were saddened last week by the news of the shootings in Roseburg, Oregon. It didn’t take long before I was also angered by the rush of extremist responses over guns. It seems...
View ArticleDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Support Hillary Clinton
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Democrat. I don’t ever remember voting Democrat–the first Presidential election that I could vote in was when Jimmy Carter was running. Though I liked him as a...
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