If God is not a punishing and rescuing deity, then who or what is God? If the biblical explanation of the source of evil is no longer operative, …
“Those whom I love, I will reprove and chasten so be zealous and repent (Rev.3: 19).”
Can you imagine that something as life denying as …
Is it accident, coincidence or strange fate that Christianity has managed to preside over centuries of history in which physical punishment has been the primary means of discipline …
In the most deeply patriarchal part of our male-dominant Western history, women were also considered to be fit subjects for corporal punishment at the hands of their husbands. …
The physical abuse of children under the guise of “proper discipline” has been practiced in western history so frequently as to be thought of as normative. It has …
“He who spares the rod, hates his son; but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. (Prov. 13:24).”
“Do not withhold …
I return today to a subject that I have covered before. It is essential however, to this series on the sources of anti-Semitism, so I ask my reader’s …
Dear Friends,
Recent columns on the Iraq war have elicited great volumes of mail. I have picked representative samples of that mail and my response to them …
When I was a child attending an Evangelical Episcopal (Anglican) Sunday school in North Carolina, I was taught that it was OK to hate Jews. If I questioned …
Bob Shepherd is the resonant Voice of the New York Yankees, heard over the public address system welcoming fans to Yankee Stations and to the YES Network. He exhorts …