Search for "cheap airline tickets to denver colorado from dca phone number 1-800-299-7264"

Your Uterus Is “An Important Subject” About Which Your Fellow Citizens “Wish To Converse”

By Sarah Posner

…cted in the future. The ruling leaves in place a 2000 decision upholding a Colorado law that imposed a 100 foot buffer zone outside all health care facilities, barring people from coming within eight feet of visitors to counsel them without their consent. In a concurring opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas, resentfully complained that because of the narrowness of the ruling, “Today’s opinion carr…

Bill Nye Gets Religulous with Bill Maher

By Michael Schulson

…uss with comedy’s favorite atheist? Photographs of Pluto, recent floods in Colorado—and, of course, the abject absurdity of religious people. From Maher, that’s to be expected. From Nye, it’s downright disappointing. Nye is a gifted teacher, and one of science’s foremost ambassadors. In the past, he’s spoken forcefully, but tactfully, against science denial. More broadly, he’s dedicated his life to improving scientific literacy in the United State…

Russian Parliament Hosts U.S. Anti-Gay Activist Paul Cameron

By Chrissy Stroop

…dited.” And while he did earn a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1966, Cameron was expelled from the American Psychological Association in 1983, and his work has also been condemned by the American Sociological Association—which has publicly declared that he cannot be considered a sociologist and that his work has no relation to legitimate social science—and by other academic bodies. With respect to religious right p…

The “One True Christian” of His Age?

By Susan Stinson

…also strangely refreshing. All of my previous books had been set mostly in Colorado and Texas, but I had lived in Massachusetts for decades, and my brother, Don Stinson, a landscape painter, suggested that I write a book set in the east. So, I was looking around, and it was literally the landscape, the earth in the cemetery with its small rises and falls, graves and markers, that led me to Jonathan Edwards and other people in Northampton in that t…

Government: Little Sisters Have No Case

By Sarah Posner

…ust before the regulations went into effect January 1, a district court in Colorado denied the Little Sisters’ motion for a preliminary injunction; the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed that decision; and Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted Little Sisters’ emergency application for a stay of that decision, ordering the Department of Justice to file a brief in response. The Little Sisters case is one of a handful of cases decided in the c…

Pope Francis vs. the Bishops: An “Overblown” Narrative?

By Patricia Miller

…he National Catholic Reporter, “since the 2011 USCCB elections, a stunning number of very talented people have left the USCCB” and many of their replacements have little experience with social justice policy but “a string of associations with different conservative outfits”: Now, not to put too fine a point on it, but one wonders if Pope Francis could be hired to work at the USCCB today. He has no background in religious liberty litigation. He did…

Buddha as Scientist, Entrepreneur & Self-Improvement Guru

By Michael Schulson

…e most recent Buddhist Geeks annual conference, which was held in Boulder, Colorado last month—and, until last Sunday, stored in a virtual forum by the good folks over at Tricycle magazine. After watching talks about “mindful media,” “upgrading the mental operating system,” and the links between Spiderman and Buddhist teachers, among other topics, I can offer four general truths—none of them especially noble—about the emerging realm of Buddhist ge…

Conversion Story #643 (not a real number)

By Amina Wadud

These days, when ever you say you are Muslim by choice, you get people asking about your conversion. Mostly they want to know why. This curiosity comes equally from those who are already Muslim and those who are not. I used to tell the same basic steps—although I hardly think my own individual door lights up any bulbs of excitement. Maybe because no lightbulbs went off for me either. I was a seeker. I was raised in a loving Christian environment…

New Poll Finds “Growing Appetite” for Mixing Religion and Politics

By Sarah Posner

…from electoral politics, as they could signal to candidates that a growing number of voters are interested in hearing them talk about their faith. While the number of Americans who believe it is important for members of Congress to have strong religious beliefs has remained steady since 2010—about 6-in-10, with even more significant majorities among Protestants and Catholics—this poll shows a growing number of Americans who want to hear candidates…

From Pastor to Harvard’s ‘Godless Church’ Planter

By Becky Garrison

…nnect with other clergy persons. Over the past 18 months, I’ve developed a number of relationships with people who contact me because they find themselves in a similar situation. They ask questions, I don’t push. I’m simply a listening ear…someone safe for them to talk to. What was the response to your coming out as an atheist? An enormous number of Christians have threatened to do physical harm to me. Many others have been kind in their response…