Tag Archives: Social Issues

About 20 people attended our August Coffee Talk, which was held Aug. 3 at Indaba Coffee.

One year after a gunman opened fire in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., killing six worshippers, Sikhs say they are hopeful about the future and even more determined to be better understood.

If you could sit and talk for an hour to any atheist living or dead for an evening, who would it be?

Find out who our atheist writer picks!

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS)  For the third time, Jesus is about to change Reza Aslan’s life.

As a teenager, Aslan turned to Jesus in an evangelical youth group, where becoming a Christian made him feel like a real American.

Today Spokane Faith & Values held its eighth Coffee Talk, this time at Indaba Coffee.

About 20 people attended the discussion, which focused on righteous anger, being nice and behavior.

I am increasingly concerned about two trends in our culture that may or may not be related. This blog is about the first trend — a trend of insisting that people be ‘nice’.  My next blog will address the second trend — incivility — and a possible relationship between the two.

I, personally, experience this demand for niceness mainly in two settings.