Does Media Bias Matter?
To religious conservatives, the news media's exclusive reliance on observable reality is itself a bias. It conflicts directly with their belief that truth is revealed to them not by science or inquiry...
View ArticleCandy Cigarettes and Social Conservatives
Social conservatives could learn a lot from public health and safety campaigns of the last generation. With relatively modest legislative support those efforts transformed our culture at its core in a...
View ArticleConservatism is Sliding Off the Roof
Faced with a dizzying pace of social and technological change the conservative movement has been gripped by a seizure of paranoia. Conservatism is not merely the eternal yin to our political yang. It...
View ArticleSearching for Jesus in History
There is no historically definitive Jesus. He is one of those rare figures in a class with Julius Caesar or Thomas Jefferson whose story is too intimately entwined in cherished myths to ever emerge in...
View ArticleWhen Science Discovered God
So, have scientists found God? Quite possibly. What’s certain in light of a century of research is that atheism is a more difficult notion to support scientifically than a belief in God. Why haven’t...
View ArticleThe Promise of the Two Christmas Stories
The twin Christmas stories are a reminder of the brittle weakness of a religion based on fear. There is no shelter from ambiguity or uncertainty. Our hope amid the darkness comes not from an unthinking...
View ArticleThe Enduring Power of Easter
As we ponder the mystery of Easter, maybe there is a new resurrection in the air. Is it possible that the death of organized religion with all its attendant trauma may be bring a hopeful new birth in...
View ArticleTraditional Christians must resist the teaching of evolution
At stake is far more than the question of where we come from. No one who needs to be taken seriously is still invested in the idea that Genesis is a history lesson. What makes evolution challenging not...
View ArticleScience and fundamentalism are tearing religion apart
Science, whether intentionally or incidentally, has undermined religion by discrediting it as a means of defining reality. At the other end of the spectrum, fundamentalists are strangling religion by...
View ArticleDestroying religious freedom
The same institutions that found themselves on the wrong side of Jim Crow, women’s rights, school desegregation, and just about every major liberty interest of the last century are trying to redefine...
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