by Barry Fagin | Aug 30, 2010 | Philosophy & Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{November 2004} I’ve been proselytized by Mormons, Muslims, Christians, believers in the Philosophy of Consciousness, Atheists, and even Orthodox Jews (who think I’m not Jewish enough). I’m part of The Unconvinced, the quiet but sizable population of Americans who...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 12, 2010 | Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Newsgroup post, January 2008} I like Sting’s message about religion in “Send Your Love” … People accuse me of being religious because I practice one. In fact, I embrace pretty much all of them. It’s just ironic that when you speak out...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 2, 2010 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality
{Originally publisjed in September, 2004 as “Religion Should Inform, Not Dominate U.S. Debate”} There are two things you’re not supposed to discuss in polite company. If you know what they are, you might want to stop right here. I was going through an...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 29, 2010 | Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Flooded with emails, Facebook posts, and headlines, I’ve been asked too many times where I stand on the “Mosque at Ground Zero”. If this were a matter of clicking a “yes” or “no” survey designed to cash in on my email address,...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 22, 2010 | Philosophy & Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Originally posted September 2004, grammar modified slightly} George Weigel, a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Roman Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading commentators on issues of religion and public life. He is the...
by Barry Fagin | Jul 12, 2010 | Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience
{July 2002} I like living in Colorado Springs because we take ideas seriously. What should people dedicate their lives to? What is government for? How should children be educated? Our city wrestles with these and other Big Questions every day. Living in a town with...
