How to Win the Culture Wars

Moral Confusion

Sanctuary for the Secular

Is God Too Smal for the Universe?

June/July 2024

How to Win the Culture Wars

Volume 44, No. 4

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Picketh Up Thy Marbles and Go Home: The Origin and Absurdity of the Religious Right’s Culture Wars and Why They Should Call Them Off
Volume 44, No. 4
June/July 2024

Throughout history, young humans have endured careful moral instruction on the difference between right and wrong. Yet humanity owns a spectacular history of violent conflict between holders of relatively minor differences of opinion in the interpretation of moral tenets.  Catholicism versus Protestantism and Shi’ite versus Sunni Islam are just two of the culture wars that …


Let Me Get This Straight
Volume 44, No. 4
June/July 2024

Do You Believe in God? You are in conversation with a neighbor, friend, associate at work, or family member, and they pointedly ask you the question, “Do you believe in God?” I most certainly did, quite some time ago, and throughout my twenty-five years as a Christian minister I spent a great deal of my …


Eighty Is Enough
Volume 44, No. 4
June/July 2024

One of the truly wonderful things about being human is that we have a relatively brief lifespan. Fewer than eighty years. And, let’s face it, eighty years ought to be enough for anybody. Eighty years is enough to read all the great books you should be reading but aren’t. I personally am about to turn …


The Myth of Immortality: A Reflection on the Journey of Aging
Volume 44, No. 4
June/July 2024

Part of my daily routine is to begin my morning with a cup of coffee. In the past week, that morning routine has been literally shattered to pieces, and, in those broken pieces, a transformation has begun. Some twenty-seven years ago, in my early forties, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Over those years, the …

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Looking Back



Atheism Is Scary Because It Reminds People of Death
Volume 36, No. 4
June / July 2016

“. . . People are now more likely than ever to bypass religion altogether and to look toward popular culture for guidance.”


Inevitable Death
Volume 36, No. 4
June / July 2016

Not only is death inevitable, life wouldn’t be possible without it.


The Future of Death
Volume 36, No. 4
June / July 2016

A year working in a mortuary reshapes one atheist’s understanding of death.


Atheism Is Scary Because It Reminds People of Death
Volume 36, No. 4
June / July 2016

“. . . People are now more likely than ever to bypass religion altogether and to look toward popular culture for guidance.”


Inevitable Death
Volume 36, No. 4
June / July 2016

Not only is death inevitable, life wouldn’t be possible without it.