Our pal Laurie Goodstein at the NYT profiles Mormons who go online searching for answers and end up finding doubt instead.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia makes the curious claim that unelected judges can lead to … the Holocaust?
Read More »Our pal Laurie Goodstein at the NYT profiles Mormons who go online searching for answers and end up finding doubt instead.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia makes the curious claim that unelected judges can lead to … the Holocaust?
Read More »I pack a few clothes and my mp3 player to board the plane for southeastern Kansas. My great-grandfather Henry and his family packed everything they owned on a train. They stopped and purchased land because there was a Lutheran Church, and so my Grandfather Erwin grew up on the farm. He left to become a German professor, and today I know almost nothing about farming.
Read More »An online conference on atheism, the Free Thought Blogs' Atheism with a Conscience (FtBCon), will be held this weekend starting tonight. All events are free and open to the public.
More than 30 sessions are scheduled, addressing such topics as "Sex and Skepticism,"
Read More »Art and science both provide valuable insights. It's fascinating how together they can work to bring enjoyment, power and ability to life.
Science brings us measurement, precision, regimentation, data records, curiosity and questioning.
Read More »Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. saw victory in federal court today when it was granted temporary exemption from the 2010 healthcare law that requires it offer workers insurance coverage for birth control.
Read More »I don't think Rolling Stone needed to choose a rock star glamor shot of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the cover of an issue devoted to helping us understand "the complexities of the issue" of the terrorist's life.
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