As a pastor, I see too many ruined lives. So, as someone very aware of my own imperfections, may I say this: It doesn’t have to be this way. There is always a […]
The British classics scholar, A.W. Verral is reputed to have said that the chief disease from which civilizations died was their low view of women.[1] Other scholars, such as the British historian, Arnold […]
“Down with the Christian church! A plague on its legalism and its bullying throughout history. And ‘hurrah’ for Voltaire, that Enlightenment literary wit who tweaked the tail of the Roman Catholic Church, and […]
I would never have made a good Stoic… although I applaud much of their thinking. Stoicism was a Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno in the 3rdcentury BC. It taught that the […]
Media opinion leaders would have us believe that atheism is for the elite, i.e. for those who are truly rational (intellectually superior). But if you must have a god, you must make sure […]
In my last blog, I gavesome straight talk to men about abusing women, and some honest talk about whether or not they can blame their genes and hormones for their behaviour. (They can’t.) […]