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June 01, 2020
Meaning in Mini Migrations
Editor’s Note: [Addendum, 6:30 AM, June 1, 2020: After another night of human-provoked violence around...
May 2020
May 28, 2020
An Ecclesiastical Basket of Deplorables
Editor’s Note: Religious leaders say the darnedest things about God’s benevolent role in the pandemic. ...
May 25, 2020
How Does God Think? Picking His Brains and Looking for Details.
Editor’s Note: I must say, the nuns in Sunday school never encouraged us to ponder...
May 21, 2020
Mature Christians and Grown-Up Atheists
Editor’s Note: This provocative piece reminds me that the pandemic is bringing out the best...
May 18, 2020
The Power of Music in a Pandemic
Editor’s (Expanded) Note: As frequent readers know, I am a music lover and a firm...
May 14, 2020
Life: It All Depends on Where You Are Standing
Editor’s Note: This is a lovely reflection on how we change through our lives and...
May 11, 2020
How Questioning Everything Saves Money, Time & Makes You A Better Person
Editor’s Note: There is lots of good advice in this post that I wish more...
May 07, 2020
I Stand Corrected
Editor’s Note: It may not be often that a person in a position of power...
May 04, 2020
COVID-19 Exposes Faith Healers as Frauds
Editor’s Note: This post reminds me that we’ve heard precious little about the power of...
April 2020
April 30, 2020
A Good Time for Wisdom!
Editor’s Note: Like me, many readers here may not have the appreciation for the Bible...
April 27, 2020
A Conspiracy of Silence
Editor’s Note: Times certainly have changed since the days when lesbians had to hide themselves,...
April 23, 2020
Missionaries Had a Huge Head Start on the Fact-Checkers
Editor’s Note: This article helped me understand how religious people, especially religious fundamentalists, are susceptible...
April 20, 2020
Earth Day: World’s Largest Secular Observance!
Editor’s Note: Finally – something to celebrate – Earth Day 2020. While many of the...
April 16, 2020
An Atheist/Evangelical Friendship
Editor’s Note: It’s possible that there are many friendships between people with very differing views...
April 13, 2020
Essential Work
Editor’s Note: Now, from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, we hear from an...
April 09, 2020
Find the Best of Easter Here – Music
By Linda LaScola, Editor I am really, really, missing Easter this year. I know I’m...
April 06, 2020
Pondering, Planning and Partying through the Pandemic
Editor’s Note: Clergy Project members are very creatively applying their knowledge of religion to the...
April 02, 2020
Church Report from Corona-Land
Editor’s Note: Things have changed a lot since “Andy”, the atheist UCC minister, last wrote...
March 2020
March 30, 2020
My Life and Yours – COVID-19 Style
By Linda LaScola, Editor My life has changed considerably over the past few weeks and...
March 26, 2020
A Pandemic of Delusional Thinking
Editor’s Note: Will ravages of the Covid-19 virus convince more people to give up on...
March 23, 2020
The Truth about Fake News
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Part 2 of this Clergy Project member’s thinking on the weighty...
March 19, 2020
Panic, Pantheism or Panoptics Through a Pandemic
Editor’s Note: As I was reading through the comments on a recent NY Times article...
March 16, 2020
Why are Ohio Churches Exempt from the Group Gathering Ban?
Editor’s Note: I knew I could count on TCP member, Bruce Gernecser to report on...
March 12, 2020
Confessions of a Gay Priest – Book Review
Editor’s Note: Last autumn, Alexis Record and Tom Rastrelli appeared together in one of many...
March 09, 2020
Bart Ehrman: Feather Ruffler Extraordinaire
Editor’s Note: Did you know that New Testament scholar and TCP member, Bart Ehrman, received...
March 05, 2020
Does “Sanctity of Life” Rule Out Abortion?
Editor’s Note: This essay, originally published last summer in Debunking Christianity is especially relevant now,...
March 02, 2020
The Troubling Mathematics Of Belief
Editor’s Note: For a guy who barely passed high school algebra, this Clergy Project...
February 2020
February 27, 2020
An Atheist Pastor’s Approach to Lent
Editor’s Note: Andy sent this to me. He’s an active United Church of Christ minister...
February 24, 2020
Local Christian Woman Blasts Evil Democrats for “Persecuting” President Trump
Editor’s Note: Living, as I do, in an overwhelming sea of liberals, it’s hard to...
February 20, 2020
Who Will Prevent Death In The Desert?
Editor’s Note: Here’s a philosophical piece written by one of The Clergy Project’s few former...
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