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November 2024

November 27, 2024

Jesus-Loves-You Corporate Health Care: A Report

This article is a response to an experience I had last week, an experience that...

November 12, 2024

Can We Still Ignore Clergy Child Abuse?

Today, November 12, 2024, we have learned that Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the...

October 2024

October 29, 2024

Can One Family Control the Bible? The Green Family Thinks So

Does a Big-Box Retail Empire Have the Right to Shape Theology? The Green family of...

October 21, 2024

Christian Nationalism: Christianity Without Christ

"Christian nationalism" is an oxymoron and an excuse for fascists to claim that they are...

September 2024

September 25, 2024

If You Believe In The Justice Of God And The U.S….

There is an insidious cancer seeping quietly into everyday American life. It is the constant...

September 06, 2024

Sacrificing Our Children To The God of AR-15

In the U.S., we wave the flag, sing the anthem, threaten anyone who disagrees with...

August 2024

August 31, 2024

Religion Is Harming Public Schools In The U.S.

Religion is harming public schools in the U.S. In spite of the screaming of "groomers"...

July 2024

July 22, 2024

Seven Reasons Why People Stop Going To Church

Anyone who pays any attention at all has noticed that church attendance in America has...

July 10, 2024

Was The U.S. Founded On Christian Beliefs: The Final Word

Of all the noise in American politics and journalism, one of the loudest arguments is...

July 08, 2024

6 Kinds of Readers: How One Sees The Bible Is The Difference

Not everyone approaches the Bible in the same way. The way that a reader plunges...

July 06, 2024

Revelation: A Failed Prophecy That Finds New Life

Some Christians, even today, some 200 years after it was written, believe that the Book...

June 2024

June 26, 2024

Do You Know Or Do You Believe?

Frequently, I hear people say that they know something to be true when they actually...

June 16, 2024

“If I Should Fall From Grace With God”

Does Shane MacGowan reveal his Christianity in his lyrics? When the news came last November...

June 08, 2024

What Reasons Are There Not To Read The Bible?

In our last post, we discussed several reasons why reading the Bible has value for...

May 2024

May 28, 2024

Is The Bible Unerring? Go Ask Asherah.

Some Christians (and I am betting almost no Jews) take the entire Bible literally and...

April 2024

April 28, 2024

Is Beltane A Christian Holiday?

Beltane? What's that? Beltane is celebrated as the midpoint between the Spring Equinox and the...

April 23, 2024

The Solemn Dawn Service On ANZAC Day

In April in the year 1915, 56,000 English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Australian and New Zealand...

April 14, 2024

Are There False Prophets In The U.S. Today?

Do you believe there are false prophets in the United States today? If you do,...

December 2023

December 09, 2023

Are Christians Required to Believe in the Bible?

Are Christians required to believe in the "Truth" of the Bible? In the Apostles' Creed...

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