One Man's Faith is Another's Secular Organization I have enjoyed your magazine for some time, finding your articles sometimes amusing (often unintentionally), sometimes stimulating, and sometimes moving. I have rarely found them inaccurate. However, in your article "A Ride Down Sixteenth Street" (September/October 1998), you have included in your list of religious places of worship
READ MORE"Many traditional ethical beliefs are hard to justify, except on the assumption that there is a God or a World Spirit or at least an immanent cosmic purpose." –Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child
READ MOREOn May 31, 1998, Pope John Paul II issued a lengthy Pastoral Letter Dies Domini, a passionate plea for a revival of Sunday observance. Though this document has enormous historical significance because it addresses the critical problem of Sunday profanation at the threshold of the Great Jubilee Year (2000), it is flawed, both theologically and
READ MOREMany of America's Founding Fathers, especially Jefferson, believed that education was the key to preserving our republican government. If so, one wonders how much longer the republic has when, for instance, the University of California (Santa Cruz) offers courses like "Feminist Cyborg Fiction," which includes stories about a "lesbian-of-color vampire." How secure are the foundations
READ MOREThe Wisconsin Supreme Court recently approved the participation of religious schools in Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program, which provides low-income parents with a $4,900 voucher for children to attend a private or parochial school. The highly criticized decision raises a number of important questions regarding the flow of tax dollars to religious schools. Can religious schools
READ MOREIn 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Included was Article 18, which reads: "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest
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