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Non-theist UU in Congress

That’s a step up from dogcatcher, a job for which non-theists ordinarily need-not-apply. I guess we’re coming up in the world – though I’m not sure he was “out” when elected. Let’s see how his next re-election bid goes.

Maybe atheist purists will take a beef with his non-identification as “atheist”. Maybe if that means [...]

Chattanooga Cares / Strides of March

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Date: Sunday, March 25, 2007
Time: Registration begins at 1:00PM
Walk starts at 2PM
Location: Coolidge Park, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga CARES 12th Annual Strides of March will be Sunday, March 25, 2007 in Coolidge Park. The Strides is a 3.1 mile walk through scenic downtown Chattanooga designed [...]

Glossolalia: Uniquely Meaningful?

I started with a very dim view of the practice of “Speaking in Tounges”. It still freaks me out a little bit. But after having a loved one join a charismatic church where the practice was common, and after my initial freaking out, I talked to a psychiatrist friend at my church who said [...]

What Haggard Means

My own initial reaction, and probably a lot of political liberals, to the troubles of Ted Haggard, included at least a small sense of schadenfreude. But the matter is bigger than politics, bigger than religion.

I mostly sat on my hands and wondered to myself how the fundamentalist right would react. While I was doing [...]