In an article published today, President Jimmy Carter said: “In the United States for the same exact work for a full-time employee, women get 23 percent less pay than men. And in the Fortune 500, only 21 of those leaders among the 500 are women, and in that high level, they get 42 percent less […]

From Antiochian.org: “The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, with great sadness, announces the passing unto life eternal of His Eminence the Most Reverend Metropolitan Philip, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America. May his memory be eternal! Details are forthcoming.”

Notice that back in 1959, before even some of the current arguments about supposedly activists courts, the Virginia State Bar posted the plaque above which lauds the fact that we are a country of common law. They go even farther to say that, “since the Magna Carta the common law has been the cornerstone of […]

There is a person who comments on my blog periodically with whom I disagree various times. But, the highest compliment that I can pay is that he makes me think. He makes sound arguments. He calls me to account. He keeps me from flights of unthinking rapture in my blog posts. Recently, he again challenged […]

On a post yesterday, a contributor wrote of being in favor of the conservative ideal of original intent. As I answered him, I am not in favor of original intent. In fact, I think that any devoted Christian should run far away from original intent. Why do I say that? Well, let’s really look at […]

From an article supporting religious liberty. Lately, religious liberty has been looking like the freedom that eats everyone else’s for breakfast. In Arizona and other states, fundamentalists said they were acting in the name of religious liberty when trying to pass laws that would allow businesses to refuse to serve people based on theological or […]

Watch the video. No comment is needed on my part.

I am always amazed at how “Jesus went out among the people” is used to justify any action that a pastor wants to take. Next on the list of reasoning of this type is that the “wind of the Holy Spirit” is bringing change. Next on the list of reasoning is a supposed rejection of […]

I posted the comic above simply because I got a laugh out of it. The author of the comic actually makes a reasonable point, but you have to think about it a bit. Most people in the USA do not go to church (or mosque or synagogue) regularly. The Gallup organization estimated that only 39% […]