Raised in a Protestant Christian tradition that values the historic creeds of the Church, I learned from an early age to respect and repeat th…
It’s a challenging time to be raising children. Education is under assault from several angles, kids are glued to their devices, parents are s…
On a bright summer Sunday morning, I was invited to speak in a synagogue on the rather dark subject of Christian Nationalism. Having lectured …
In classes I teach on Freethought and Religion, I often startle students with the factual claim that Christians are atheists. This isn’t some …
We have made the point in the last several articles that if we are to engage the Bible skeptics of the world in a discussion about the being a…
I visit the National Institute for Standards and Technology website occasionally to reset my wristwatch. I’ve resisted the current trend to we…
In my opinion the answer to this question is: No. The only “evidence” for the “truth” of one faith is how a believer lives their life. And tha…
It appears we live in a time when the “commercial success” of the “Christian brand” has become fused or confused with a kind of “political rel…
I sat with the doctor three years ago and he got straight to the point. He’d examined the scan and he said, “Mike, you have cancer.”
I enjoy a good challenge, especially when it comes to questions of faith and freethought. A reader suggested I write a column on his sense tha…