Herb Silverman
Posts by Herb Silverman (page 2)
Commentary: Religion in Foreign Policy
Problems usually arise when a country applies religion to its foreign policy. United States foreign policy should always be secular. At the same time,... Read More
FIRST PERSON | Where Did Bible Stories Come From?
We know that the Bible is mostly fiction, but did you ever wonder how some of the incredible stories got into the book? As... Read More
What I Learned from 11 Humanist Groups in 11 Days
I recently drove with my wife Sharon from our home in Charleston, South Carolina, to eleven locations in Florida in eleven days, covering over... Read More
In Defense of Trump’s Tweets… or Not
Both supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump often say his frequent tweets are not “presidential,” a poorly defined word. I don’t think presidents... Read More
His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America’s PornPanic With Honest Talk About Sex
BY MARTY KLEIN PRAEGER, 2016 208 PP.; $24.00 I WAS ONE of those teenagers who really did read the articles in Playboy, though not... Read More
Last Leper in the Colony: An Atheist Runs for Congress in the Bible Belt
BOOK BY WYNNE LEGROW 380 PP.; $19.95 A white doctor in the rural South is presumed to be a Republican and a Christian. Wynne... Read More
Positive Atheism
On Sunday, April 3, 2016, the fourth annual Dr. Irving & Annabel Wolfson Lecture was held at the UU Church of Worcester in Worcester,... Read More