This is a link to a story PBS did on the case of CLS v. Martinez, which will be argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow.  It involves the Christian Legal Society chapter at UC Hastings (near San Fransisco), which had its student organization status revoked by the school because the group requires that voting members [...]

Breakfast never tasted this good. I could smell that the traditional spinach, cheese, and egg omelet was in the works. I sat in my chair, downed some fresh carrot juice, and began rubbing the sleepers out of my eyes before lifting up the first piece of fresh avocado. The familiar voice of Dobson came on [...]

It was ironic that while I’m doing a podcast series on the fundamentalist Baptist No!No!s like alcohol and dancing, I was linked to a video of health-and-wealth, name-it-claim it, word-of-faith, prosperity-gospel, seeker-sensitive and Postmodern slappy-happy never-mention-the-word-”sin” preacher Joel Osteen, saying that Christians shouldn’t eat pork. He says: Let’s talk a moment about pork, ham, bacon, [...]

A worldview isn’t just an abstract, disconnected set of beliefs. Worldviews encompass an orientation of a person’s heart and are therefore extremely personal. Worldviews are directly tied to a person’s identity since every worldview answers the question of identity: who am I? People are therefore defined (to some degree) by what they believe. Worldviews/philosophy is [...]