I wrote this essay back in 2001 during my period of away from Christianity, while I was exploring Vipassana Buddhist Meditation. Begin Although it has been a few weeks since I did the 10 day course, it is still worthwhile to try and remember. In...
A good friend of mine has wandered full force into the positive thinking, humanistic, Dale Carnegie type of success training that is popular in professional circles these days. Now, I don’t necessarily disparage it, and there is a lot of…
I just discovered (via the Secular Nation podcast, one of the many atheist/anti-theist/secularist podcasts I follow) Margaret Downey’s answer to the Christmas Tree, the Tree of Knowledge – that is, an atheists’ substitute for the religious celebration of Christ. Downey…
One of the most annoying voices on conservative talk radio is Mark Levin, author of the bestselling Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto. However, it’s all I’ve got some days, and once in a while, he has an interesting guest…
Atheists and secularists are fond of quoting the articulate Thomas Paine, author of the free-thinkers creed Age of Reason. Few know, however, that a founding father wrote a rebuttal in 1801, which American Vision has reprinted. Elias Boudinot’s book The…
What is it in us that likes to poke at the monkey in the cage? Insecurity, playfulness, original sin? The monkey I love to torment is the evolutionary believer – why? Because I once was one. As a trained Biochemist,…
The Seven C’s of the Christian WorldView of History These Seven C’s are nicely described at The Seven C�s. I won’t go into detail, and you can purchase the book at right, but here they are: Creation – the creation…
I am exploring the mystery of why people leave faith for my upcoming book, and am also doing some great research by reading the following: Walking Away from Faith: Unraveling the Mystery of Belief and Unbelief Quitting Church: Why the…
