Do you believe in a higher power?Not really, no. At best I believe in a greater power, some kind of collective consciousness, or sustained zeitgeist. Mostly I’m deeply agnostic. I think that we do not have the perspective to understand existence as a whole. And I think that we are pattern-creating beings, so any pattern that we claim to perceive ( Read more... )

A Pew Form study released today shows that atheists/agnostics are more knowledgeable about religion than religious people themselves. That's not particularly surprising, but I found some of the results interesting. You can read the results here and take a sample quiz from the survey here.

The General Synod (national meeting) of the United Church of Christ, the denomination of the church where I work, that hosts Theatre@First, has overwhelmingly passed a resolution in support of equal marriage rights for all people, regardless of gender.

Conveniently, written out by Christopher Hitchens on Slate.

This is the jihad for me!

snitched from dpolicar

And if you want your own Unitarian Jihad name, you can go here

This was pointed out to me by audioboy.

An evangelical Christian group in the UK has changed its policy about homosexuality: http://tinyurl.com/4zbm7

So, this happened a few months ago and I meant to write about it then, but I don't seem to have done so. If I missed it, and you're reading this for a second time, my apologies for the redundancy.

( See, I got this phone call at work... )

For those of you following the ongoing story of my former housemate, Lori Berenson's imprisonment in Peru, here's an article about her most recent appeal failing ( Read more... )

http://www.ucc.org/news/u113004a.htm

CLEVELAND -- The CBS and NBC television networks are refusing to run a ( Read more... )