As atheists have increasingly become more vocal, I’ve noticed that  the faith-based community at-large has generally had two strains of opposition: Outright hostility, as personified by anti-atheist books by Chris Hedges, Dinesh D’Souza, Christopher Hitchens’ brother and the countless books that sprung up to specifically counter Richard Dawkins’ the God Delusion (the Atheist Delusion and […]

Testing can be difficult no matter how old you are or what you’re testing for.  In my experience, the only thing that prepares me for a test is to study and really work at understanding the material. For the last two years at a public school in Baltimore, they’ve been trying a little something extra […]

Will religious leaders ever learn? Senior pastor Cho Yong-gi of Yoido Full Gospel Church, the largest Christian church in the world, has faced vicious public condemnation as he called the catastrophic Japanese quakes and tsunamis “God’s warnings.” “I fear that this disaster may be warnings from God against the Japanese people’s atheism and materialism,” an […]

I just heard about this, though maybe it’s old news.  In 2008 a website was launched which was aimed at Christians.  This site challenged them to: A.    Adopt a child in need B.    Adopt a family in a third world country whom they feed for just pennies a day C.    Adopt and […]

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan had some interesting things to say this last Sunday at the annual Saviours’ Day convention at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Il.  Among other things, the leader said that Moammar Gadhafi has always been a friend and he won’t distance himself from the Libyan dictator.  He also said that if Gadhafi […]