‘How can you make 2011 a happier year for yourself? By thinking of others.’
This may not be the main reason for “doing good”, but according to Professor Susan Blackmore, psychologist and writer, there are benefits for everyone from resolving to think more socially at the New Year.
December 31, 2010 /
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Washington, DC Mayor-elect Vincent Gray has excluded nontheists from his first official inaugural event. What message does this send to DC’s nontheists?
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Courtesy AtheistCartoons.com.
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Courtesy AtheistCartoons.com.
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Once an atheist, R. Brad White is trying to save Christianity from self-destruction. His non-profit, Changing the Face of Christianity Inc. aims to reverse the Christian intolerance, hypocrisy, homophobia, judgmentalism, and other negative Christian stereotypes, by helping Christians to be more like Jesus Christ. Christians Are Leaving the Church. White notes the growing exodus from [...]
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The revised iPhone application for the Manhattan Declaration has been rejected, and the developer plans to appeal the decision after the New Year. The Manhattan Declaration is a document drafted by various members of the religious right and Christian dominionist movements that advocates civil disobedience with respect to laws that do not comply with religious [...]
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The Pope has created the Vatican Central Bank to monitor all financial transactions of the only bank in Vatican City, the IOR, and international operations of financial institutions of the Holy See. In September, Italian authorities seized $30 million from the Vatican Bank which was under investigation for money laundering. The new bank will allow [...]
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On behalf of its currently active and former members in the Army, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) called today on the Secretary of the Army to halt its invasive and unconstitutional “spiritual fitness” survey and rehabilitation program.
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Despite pride in our democracy, the Constitution and Bill of Rights that guarantee our fundamental liberties, Americans are woefully misinformed about our rights under the First Amendment generally and religious liberty in particular.
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Reading Genesis with an open mind, the pitfalls to taking the book literally are immediate and obvious. To overlook them shows a detrimental side to the power of the human mind.
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