This is a guest post from CatGirl. It’s a write up of her experience so far at the FCNL Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. I plan on writing up something later–maybe Monday. She’s much more on the ball than I am! You can follow my twitter feed, as I try to tweet the conference. Without [...]

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(It’s that time again – guest post from Zach time.) (Image from Bloomsbury Auctions) Lots of people are talking about a newly-surfaced letter by Einstein, which seems to clarify his ambiguous views on religion with the following strongly-worded statements: The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, [...]

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(Hey ya’ll – another guest post from Zach. PS, hope you don’t mind my saying “ya’ll.”) A year ago, a group called Soulforce organized two buses of queer and allied folks, mostly students, to ride around the country visiting colleges with discriminatory policies – i.e. religious and military ones. The East Coast bus visited Gordon [...]

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(Hello, this is Zach Alexander — you may have read my Leaving the Garden post, and this is the first of a few guest articles I’m posting while John is otherwise engaged.) “The stuff that really brings people together, and makes us happy to live together, originates from a caring and thoughtful mind that’s been [...]

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This is the final half of Elaine Frei‚Äôs two part review and reflection of Krakauer’sUnder the Banner of Heaven. In Part I of this review, I explored the story of Ron and Dan Lafferty and how they came to murder Brenda and Erica Lafferty, the wife and daughter of their younger brother, Allen.¬† While that [...]

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I always look forward to Elaine Frei’s well-written, thought-provoking comments. Now she has graced us with her review and reflections of Under the Banner of Heaven, John Krakauer’s controversial expos?© of the murders of a mother and her infant daughter by Fundamentalist Mormons. What makes Krakauer’s coverage of these killings especially relevant for discussion here [...]

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This guest post was submitted by Johnny from The Fire Sermon. In it he echoes my own puzzlement at the suspicion with which atheists are viewed. I would also encourage everyone who took the Philosophy Quiz to check out Johnny’s reflections on Paul Tillich, the existential Christian theologian. Next week Elaine Frei will grace us [...]

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