American Atheists, founded nearly half a century ago by Madalyn Murray O’Hair, is still around, and this year, they’re sending out a Christmas card, of sorts. More precisely, they’ve put up a Christmas billboard, prominently placed in North Bergen, N.J …
What are the things you’re thankful you don’t have? Are you thankful for nothing, in the best sense of the phrase?
Nearly four in 10 Americans (39 percent) think marriage is becoming “obsolete.” So says a Time/Pew Research Center poll released last week, and that’s the part of the poll that’s grabbing the headlines. In reality, there’s more to the poll than that, a …
In a column nominating retired NFL quarterback Kurt Warner for Sportsman of the Year, Peter King of Sports Illustrated takes up Warner’s recent appearance on Dancing with the Stars (HT: Getreligion): It was an interesting personal choice. Warner is a d …
I have a boyfriend. We have been on and off for the past year and a half. We met at an appropriate yet inopportune time: a few weeks before summer break and only a few months before I would leave for Europe. But, against my initial wishes, we dated any …
My husband and I enjoy watching “The Biggest Loser.” On this show, players compete to lose the most weight and win a $250,000 prize at the end of the show. During the past few years, I’ve seen a mantra recited again and again by players from all walks …
A few days ago I received an invitation from a very important person in my sphere. It was the kind of invitation you hate to turn down because you feel so special to have received it. But I did. Turn it down. When I saw the date, I knew immediately tha …
At my church we recently celebrated All Saints Day, understanding “saints” not as extraordinary Christians but as all who are in Christ, in this world and the next. Among the hymns was one especially lovely I’d rarely heard, “We Sing for All the Unsung …
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