Why It’s Important to Question the Bible

I was recently engaged in an exchange on Facebook when the question of Paul was raised. In the course of the discussion, I mentioned the fact that some of Paul’s teachings had been used to support the subjugation of women and others. One responder replied to my...

Third Time’s A Charm: Kentucky Town OKs Mosque

Mayfield, Ky., my hometown, will have a Muslim prayer space after all. The city’s board of zoning adjustments recently reversed itself and approved a Somali man’s request for such a space, which the media and many townsfolk have been calling a mosque....

Clergy Plotting to Defeat Obama Lack Moral Integrity

Conservative Christian leaders are plotting against President Obama, hoping to do to him what they did to President Jimmy Carter: use their moral authority and organizations to remove a fellow Christian from the White House.   They have every constitutional right to...

Contempt + meanness = big trouble

President Obama has been visiting Indonesia, one of my favorite countries — where the good morning greeting is “selamat pagi,” where bananas and mangoes grow wild, and where street vendors sell satay cooked over tiny charcoal fires, along with peanut...