Does one need faith to believe in God? Or God in order to have faith? Are the two necessarily tied together, inextricably? Faith is a process. (What I refer to here is not the kind of FAITH that has a set of requirements in order to claim, visa vis the…
Bush declares that the government is not reading (listening) to the content of the phone messages being tapped by our security apparatus. He's probably trying to figure out why people are so upset. After all, he's trying to protect us from terrorists. Oddly, I believe him when he says this. …
I'm something of an amateur historian. I find most rewarding research that shows how someone--an individual, a community, a movement--got to where they ended up. It's the most instructive part of studying history, because you can begin to see how things relate, how one incident, taken in isolation, may make…
Since the trial in Dover, PA over Intelligent Design, it must be obvious hat nothing was really settled other than a specific legal question. I think it would be a good idea for every one interested in this issue to find and read the decision handed down by the judge. …
The Missouri legislature is entertaining a bill that would require a signed permission from a student's parent(s) before the student may receive sex education. A few weeks ago, while listening to Talk of the Nation on NPR, I learned that, according to recent polls, Americans exhibit NO MAJORITY CONSENSUS on the…