It’s ‘Free Your Mind Friday!’ A Whole Day Early! The Grinch steals tomorrow, but “Free Your Mind Friday” won’t be among his Christmas loot. It’s…
Christianity
Humans haven't learned much in more than 2,000 years when it comes to religion and politics. Religion has led to social tension and conflict, not…
Here is Jesus H. Christ, walking around modern America, right now. Can you imagine him? Here is, in other words, a dark-skinned, bearded, unkempt Middle…
America’s founders believed education was insurance against loss of liberty. Jefferson said “(e)very government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The…
Pew Research Center WASHINGTON, D.C. (Oct. 22, 2015) - A majority of the public (59%) says science and religion often conflict, while 38% says science…
When the body comes into harmony, it's more than just symptom relief, it's an opportunity to come into yourself and ascend that ladder. I used…
The origins of Christianity in Russia go back to 988 and coincide with the baptism of Prince Vladimir the Great. He had come to Constantinople,…
Our age has no shortage of curious features, but for me, at least, one of the oddest is the way that so many people these…
Christopher Obal used to be a Christian. He grew up in Queens, New York, and when he was 5 years old, his parents left Catholicism…
About 2,500 years ago something changed the way humans think. Within the span of two centuries, in three separate regions of Eurasia, spiritual movements emerged…
If religious kitsch is a guilty pleasure, one of my favorite indulgences is a graphic that depicts a school of ichthus—the simple outline of a fish…
This week’s news from Pew on the decline of institutional Christianity, with its trove of data on the “unaffiliated” and the decline of the mainstream, has…