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March 2021

March 01, 2021
Why the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation Fails to Promote Freedom and Undermines the Foundation of...

August 2020

August 26, 2020
In college a friend at the time once told me that she had been invited...

March 2020

March 05, 2020
Stem cell research has been the subject of discussion and heated debate for many years....

January 2020

January 30, 2020
Many people on Earth think a belief in a higher power is essential if we’re...
January 15, 2020
  Coalescing around Climate Change A few years ago, during the time of the United...

September 2019

September 06, 2019
Did you know that the moon is hollow? In reality, it isn't a natural satellite...

July 2019

July 13, 2019
  In the last part of May 2019, an unlikely gathering took place at the...

June 2019

June 20, 2019
The Trump Administration seems bent on prioritizing religious "freedoms" over human needs — including medical...

April 2019

April 18, 2019
People sure do love their double standards. You probably know how true this is if...

February 2019

February 15, 2019
Employee benefits, workplace rights and even the very definition of employment itself have all changed...
February 10, 2019
  On Wednesday, January 16th, at the Adam’s Middle School in a small, bedroom community...

January 2019

January 31, 2019
Karen Pence is America’s second lady and the wife of U.S. vice president Mike Pence....
January 28, 2019
The use of the phrase "thoughts and prayers" in the wake of mass shootings and...
January 16, 2019
“One stop along the way” on a school field trip may have been a serious...
January 10, 2019
Our species has spent thousands of years trying to use magic to cure diseases. When...

December 2018

December 19, 2018
You have your answer ready. Now for the next question.

November 2018

November 30, 2018
On November 1 – 7, 2018, more than 10,000 people from all over the world...
November 29, 2018
We don't live in a world driven by potentialism. But we should.
November 09, 2018
Cannabis is legal for recreational use in Canada now. It's already far exceeding most peoples' wildest expectations...

October 2018

October 29, 2018
What do people need? It's a serious question. Apart from food, water and sleep, what...
October 25, 2018
Belief in magic might be the very last taboo left on earth. In fact, it's...
October 03, 2018
Whether or not He exists elsewhere, it's clear God lives in the deepest parts of...

September 2018

September 02, 2018
Last week I offered up a rather dense introduction to the storytelling problem of "sacrifice"...

August 2018

August 26, 2018
This week in Colombia, the Constitutional Court overturned a two-year-old ban on bullfighting, citing its...
August 12, 2018
It happens with uncanny frequency here in Colombia: when I talk to a male person,...
August 10, 2018
One way or another, everybody believes the whole Universe operates according to some kind of...
August 04, 2018
I had the opportunity a few days ago to read a column on atheism in...

July 2018

July 25, 2018
I suspect it's clear by now, to readers of this blog, that I am more...
July 16, 2018
The other day a family member wrote me with a "joke": an email that contained,...
July 08, 2018
It's been a wild ride in Colombia this past week, if you're up on your...
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