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Dateline California. Doctors, under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have sterilized nearly 150 female inmates in four years without required state approval. Some of the women were strongly pressured or even tricked into signing off on the procedure. As gross as this is, and in spite…

Anthea Butler is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Religious Studies. She holds Ph. D and  M.A. degrees in Religion from Vanderbilt University, as well as an M.A. in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. As such, the average person would probably expect her to say things…

The very concept of an Atheist church seems like an oxymoron. After all, Atheists don’t believe in God and church is an institution based on belief in God. But like so much else in modern culture, what used to be considered abnormal has somehow become the new normal. Jerry DeWitt…

Many people get upset when President Obama’s faith is questioned. Some people are disturbed because he claims he is a Christian and they don’t think anyone has the right to question a person’s faith. Others don’t like it because they believe it is obvious that his actions demonstrate Christian principles.…

These days, it seem that there is no end to the scandals in our government. We are literally seeing assaults on the press, on private citizens, on conscience rights, on the legal system, and the list gets bigger by the day. But that is not all. There is also an…

In 1989, Stephen Covey published what came to be his blockbuster book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Well, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken this idea and created their own version to help managers become more effective. This list was sent out to all DOJ…

Well, they have done it. Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University claim to have overcome the barriers for creating human embryonic stem cells. It seems that these scientists have been able to create an embryo in the lab that is capable of developing into a human being. These scientists…

America has become such a contradictory place. We are becoming more secular in some ways but continue to be as spiritual as we were in the past. How can that be? Recently, the Pew Research Center did some polling to get a handle on this. Basically what we see is…

Let me just state up front, I don’t consider myself a boycotter. But maybe that is just a matter of semantics. I like to put the emphasis on the positive rather than on the negative. So the end result is that I try to support those businesses which uphold my…

There are already two states in the union, Washington and Oregon, which have legalized assisted suicide. A third one is looking to join the club. Sen. Ed Meyer, in Connecticut, has introduced a bill to legalize assisted suicide in his state. It is unclear, at this point, whether or not…