Reading Time: 11 minutes An atheist family lives in the panhandle of Oklahoma. The daughter is on her public school’s basketball team. Before a game, she refuses to say a prayer in the locker room. She also did not join the team in the on-court prayer before a game. She gets kicked off the team as a result. As […]
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Julia Sweeney
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve made mention before of how much I loved seeing the one-woman show by Julia Sweeney (a.k.a. Pat from Saturday Night Live). The show is called “Letting Go of God” and it’s one of the best stories I know of someone going from religion to atheism. If you haven’t heard it yet, an excerpt was […]
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Does this work the other way around…?
Reading Time: < 1 minute This whole eBay experience has been one of an atheist visiting Christian churches. This often begs the question of whether there are any Christians who have gone to atheist gatherings to see what goes on there. Has anyone done this to learn about what atheists believe?
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Pastor Tim’s response (to Siamang)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tim responded to the Creationism paper:
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Obama, Alabama, etc.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Yesterday, my senator Barack Obama made a speech about how Democrats need to embrace faith. The speech is here. Already, I’ve received a couple emails from Atheist organizations opposing the comments he made. For them, any expression of faith in the public square is anathema to their own agenda. What did Obama say? Definitely not […]
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Pastor Tim’s Response
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pastor Tim responded to my post below (Once again showing how great he is with the positive dialogue):
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Creationism for My Child’s Teacher
Reading Time: 6 minutes (***Update 7/10/06: The pamphlet mentioned in this post was edited to mention that the National Geographic article does say that there is sufficient evidence for evolution. Soon after that, other points about the inaccuracies of the document were discussed on this website and the pamphlet was taken down from the Parkview site altogether. Thus, the […]
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Dialogue at Parkview Christian Church
Reading Time: 4 minutes I was invited by Pastor Tim Harlow to join him in a discussion at his Parkview Christian Church a little over a month ago. As they were spending some time talking about the Da Vinci Code and the issues raised by the book/movie, it seemed like the topic of “Doubt” was an important one and […]
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Preview
Reading Time: < 1 minute The new site is up. But undoubtedly, there are 3289432 bugs. Please let me know if you see any. How, you ask? By commenting! (At least that function should be working…) A real update on the weekend will be here sometime tonight. RSS feeds coming shortly as well.