Monthly Archives: June 2008

At a news conference in Florida this week, John McCain couldn’t resist the opportunity to bring up remarks by Jeremiah Wright, calling them "beyond belief." This, despite the fact that Bill Moyers, in an hour long interview last Friday showed … Continue reading →

Biblical creationism, repositioned as creation science and most recently intelligent design has lost the contest of ideas on all counts: the rules, the criteria and the judging. It doesn’t follow the scientific method; it doesn’t allow us to explain, predict, … Continue reading →

"The kids are proud!" my husband, Brian, commented, "I told them where you were." We were vacationing in the Caribbean, and I had been engaged in one of my quirky travel pastimes–buying children’s books and dropping them at a local … Continue reading →

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and … Continue reading →

  This post is part of a dialogue, In Two Minds: The Anatomy of a Christian Hate Letter, between former minister Brian Worley and psychologist Valerie Tarico . In the series, Brian Worley, an ordained Baptist, describes some of his … Continue reading →