Yes, morning has broken, and today is the universe’s birthday – though technically it started last night at about 6…
“Cult” is a loaded word, one with many negative connotations and a few neutral ones. Consider the variable way the…
This weekend sees the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, two weeks in 1962 when the…
The scene: a generic deathbed. For the purposes of this exercise, you are an atheist. You are present at this…
Playtime! Here are eight mystery messiahs in an early stage of development, between infancy and late teens. All of these…
(Matthew 25:14-30) One day our Master went on a mission to a far country, leaving a sum of…
We all knew him. Some of us were him. He was not always the smartest, the tallest, or even…
Today’s offering is my take on the iconic Just-So story of the building of the Tower of Babel. And,…
Maybe I was lucky. My childhood as a secret atheist in a Fundamentalist family had many awkward moments and roughly…
A disreputable nonentity gathers around himself about a dozen women and a handful of men and bears them off…