Christ the Tao

A week ago, the New York Times warned against encouraging hatred towards one group of Americans by associating them with the dreade...

Here's my translation of an article in China's official news agency, Xinhua ("New China"), that has stirred angry reaction...

(Most recent update May 15th.)   "It only takes a spark to get a fire going." Fires burn down buildings as well as warm people u...

Why schools should teach history better.  Teaching high school kids how to think and do research sometimes drives me to despair.  N...

My article explaining why I like Bill Boeing, Bill Gates, and maybe even Jeff Bezos, better than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, or at...

David Madison wants to know why any women remain within the Christian church.  After all, the Bible is thoroughly antagonistic towards wo...

They called my new article on The Stream "Halloween, Zombie Morality, and the Light of the World." My chosen title was a paraphra...

I hesitate to argue with a politician, as I hesitate to argue with a bratty child.  Most politicians use the arts of rhetorical persuasion a...

Some people are obsessed with the evils of racism.  Not surprisingly, these people often seem to be projecting their own racist attitudes an...

(From How Jesus Passes the Outsider Test , David Marshall) As noted above , the secularist community has, in recent years, often poin...

Perhaps one should ignore such a post as vulgar sneering, and move quietly along.  But it is our job here to parse facts and seek truth. ...

What are the miracle of Jesus really like?  Lots of people are confused about them, comparing them to meaningless magic tricks, and citing r...