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The Heredia Court has handed a 34-year prison sentence to a pastor for committing sexual crimes against a minor.

The smoky haze was so bad today you couldn’t see the foothills just beyond town. There was only a faint smell of smoke from the wildfires here in northern California…

It’s a hoot to hear Christian intellectuals rail against “the materialist defaults in secular culture,” claiming that they are “like a spell that’s been cast over modern minds, and the…

Never be a part of anything when you have to convince yourself of it, to make it all seem true or ok.

What need of churches when there of fields of orange poppies, and foothills framed by cumulus scudding across the sky? This isn’t a throwback to some druid-like philosophy, though the…

Though I was brutally raised Catholic at a time when children were forced to attend Mass in Latin six days a week (five before school and once on Sunday), I…

It’s difficult to conceive, but a few decades ago nature was largely seen as a dangerously untamed force. Now only when there are natural disasters, such as the recent cyclone…

Someone wrote and flatly stated she was an atheist and I was a believer. Since I most often meet up with believers who think I’m a heretic or apostate, I…