A german photographer developed a work of art that focused on death. Specifically, the artist produced photos of people when they knew their health was declining and then after they had died. The work represented a fairly diverse group of people at different ages and gave the observer background information leading up to the [...]

This is a reaction to Bad-Astronomers’ post on faith and science.
I do not intend to prove you wrong. But there are other points of view – not particularly antagonistic to science – that are rarely heard.
I don’t think we have to split faith and science dualistically. When splitting like this takes place, the result [...]

This was found in his desk a few days after he died:
“No one can understand Virgil’s Georgics unless he has been a farmer
for five years. No one can understand Cicero’s letters unless he has
busied himself in the affairs of a great empire for twenty-five years.
No one can presume to have indulged in Holy Scriptures sufficiently
unless [...]

This is a response - among many, I’m sure - to evangelical politicians who are intent on “Taking this nation back for Christ.”
1. This nation was never a “Christian” nation.     Thomas Jefferson was a deist who was interested in the ethics taught by Jesus and preferred to dismiss spiritual claims. John Locke and others [...]