What Next for Gay Marriage?
Voters here in Wisconsin passed a ban on same-sex marriage in the fall of 2006. The following morning, I thoughtlessly tried to console a... Read More
The Nature of Great Coincidences
When I was at university my friend Bruno claimed to have the ideal pickup line. He’d approach a woman in a bar and say... Read More
Plato, Romance, and Self-Inquiry
If philosophy has all along proclaimed the unexamined life to be not worth living, it seems not yet to have grasped that the unloving... Read More
Pastors & Politics Why is the IRS letting tax-exempt churches play politics?
Speaking to his congregation at Fairview Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, in September, Pastor Paul Blair proclaimed himself a “God-fearing Oklahoman” and a “patriotic... Read More
Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A progressive Christian response
More often than not, conservatives represent the internal Christian debate over the ethics of homosexuality as if it were between those who hold firm... Read More
Matches Made on Earth: Why Family Values are Human Values
The term “family values,” the importance of which fundamentalist Christians have been preaching for decades, continues to permeate religious and political printed matter and... Read More
Chipping Away at the Bench How we failed the judiciary in Iowa
Voter anger took a new form as the results of Iowa’s November 2010 midterm elections were revealed. In a real-life twist that would make... Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear held October 30 here in Washington, DC, sure was a lot of fun. The weather was gorgeous,... Read More
Steven Pinker on Textbooks, Culture Wars and the “A” Word
On April 22, Dr. Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the department of psychology at Harvard University, lectured at Midland... Read More
By AMANDA KNIEF For HumanistNetworkNews.org Originally published June 02, 2010 "Do you think God hates us all a little bit right now?" The gentleman's... Read More