My Column (Sneak Preview)
Coming this Saturday in the Citizen-Times … “A Non-Believer’s Open Letter to God” Why on earth (or anywhere else) would a non-believing humanist freethinking secular person write a letter to…
Tag: prayer
Google Prayers?
So, now that the Impeached-in-Chief has magically allowed more magic in schools (students are now free to pray? What a shock!), I remembered this little piece I wrote a while…
Thoreau’s Challenge
I’ll be teaching a course on Henry David Thoreau this spring. These thoughts were springing and sauntering off the pages as I read his journals again. Thoreau’s Challenge to Religion…
A Closer Look at the Lord’s Prayer
This week’s column takes a closer, rational, line-by-line look at the so-called Lord’s Prayer or “Our Father.” Many of us were raised with this prayer since childhood. It was our…
While God Wasn’t Watching
Breaking (Broken) News Just In from “West Wing Reads” (official White House email): ‘You Had God Watching’ President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump “met Wednesday with some…
Open Letter on Prayer
(I know I cycle back to this subject now and again, but after the latest “Pray for Them” post, I’ve got to ask more questions!) Open Letter to my friends…
Atheist Prayer
Listen to the Prologue to This American Life podcast on “The Weight of Words.” Ira Glass expresses exactly how I felt for years. Why does God need our prayers and why do…
Pray for Them?
Yet another tragic event (this time in Kyoto, Japan) and people are twitching their twitter fingers with “Pray for them.” Sorry (but not really sorry) to ask, why? Please explain…
