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A Crowded But Empty Tomb

  • by: Robert M. Price
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Surely you heard the news earlier this year of the discovery (actually twenty-seven years ago) of what some claim is the tomb of Jesus and his family. According to the Discovery Channel documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus, which premiered [Read More...]

Published in the May / June 2007 Humanist
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Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A progressive Christian response

  • by: Eric Reitan
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“If your theory about the Bible leads you to ignore or refuse to hear the suffering cries of your gay and lesbian neighbors, wouldn’t that be a reason to rethink your theory?”

Published in the January / February 2011 Humanist
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The Letter from Death

  • Book by: Lillian Moats
  • Illustrations by: David J. Moats
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FOREWORD by Howard Zinn Lillian Moats gives us, in The Letter from Death, a brilliant and strikingly original work of the imagination, drawing both on biblical scholarship and contemporary military doctrine, infused with wit and irony, grounded in a profound [Read More...]

Published in the January / February 2010 Humanist
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School Spirit

  • by: Thomas Mates
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“[The Bible] is so human a book that I don’t see how belief in its divine authorship can survive the reading of it.” –William James, in response to a 1904 survey on religious belief Published in the May/June 2009 Humanist [Read More...]

Published in the May / June 2009 Humanist
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Ripping into the Bible

  • by: Maggie Ardiente
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ON THE MORNING of December 7, 2007, Christopher Campbell walked into his English Honors class at Parker High School, prepared to tear out pages of the Bible. Earlier that week his teacher had taped aphorisms by Ralph Waldo Emerson on [Read More...]

Published in the March / April 2008 Humanist
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