An until-now undisclosed chapter in United States torture and “rendition” has been revealed by Human Rights Watch. Their full report, “Delivered into Enemy Hands: U. S. Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Ghaddafi’s Libya,” details the collusion between the U. S. and Gaddafi’s

A guilty pleasure, for sure… but Brian Murphy goes off the chain in a ripping (and at time over the top) dismissal of five prominent atheists. His treatment of Sam Harris sets the overall tone… For a guy who purportedly came to be an atheist through his intellect, Harris routinely [...]

Spending money on space exploration instead of pressing issues re poverty and starvation… ethical or not? I admit (and this may surprise some) that I can’t answer this one objectively; I love the idea of science, discovery, and exploring God’s Great Secrets to unravel them. I’m a both/and kind of [...]

The Obama Administration, in a major policy shift, has announced that the U. S. Government will no longer deport undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children. There are some stipulations, but the overall effect of the new law is that an expected 800,000 lives which otherwise were at [...]

Tonight, in fact just minutes from now, there’s going to be an execution — the tenth in Texas this year. Thursday, there’s a second execution scheduled. In fact, in the next eight days four executions in Texas are scheduled. Coming Thursday: Another Texas Execution Under Perry – Andrew Cohen – [...]

Christians in China: Is the country in spiritual crisis?. The BBC reports on the unprecedented growth of the Christian Churches in China, and suggests that perhaps this is at least in part due to the loss of the spiritual that nation’s materialistic boom has created. One can hope that the [...]

Kierkegaard’s personal life and grappling with a living faith in the face of the dead church continue in part 2 of the BBC’s “Kierkegaard – Sea of Faith.”

Christian philosopher and “solitary individual” Soren Kierkegaard is here contrasted with his contemporary Karl Marx. Kierkegaard (Danish for “church yard”) is explored not only as a philosopher but as a human being in part one of this BBC special.

And in the totally unbelievably bizarre department, Psychology Today’s website posted (and then — upon being blasted roundly by the masses for it — unposted) the following bit of racist insanity. Warning: what follows is highly offensive racism masquerading as science. We post it to remind ourselves — and our [...]

This article, written over twenty years ago, seems to me a direct response to the recent hysteria generated by Harold Camping’s false prophecy’s re Christ’s Return May 21 2011. A JOYFUL HOPE by Jon Trott [from Cornerstone Issue #67] I feel angry. Angry at those who have made the coming [...]