“Awake” or “Woke?”

(Due to a change in my schedule, Skeptical Faith will be published on Fridays instead of Thursdays beginning Oct. 24.) I was a latecomer to the notion of “woke,” not ...

A Place at the Table

If you regularly connect with social media – Facebook, Instagram, etc. – you’ll notice that they are filled with political messages from one side or another. Many are harsh; some ...

How to “Find” God

When you fall in love, you want to think of nothing else, or no one else, but your beloved. It can be close to an obsession. If you marry, as ...

Is Self-Love Overrated?

There’s an ad appearing regularly on streaming video, and I assume on regular TV, showing an attractive young woman with beautiful, long black hair who has just used a hair ...

Faith, in a Culture of Violence

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know about the recent murder of Charlie Kirk, a religious conservative, co-founder of Turning Point USA and an influential voice in the ...

“Thy Will Be Done?”

A phrase in the “Our Father,” also called the Lord’s Prayer, has always been a problem for me. To me, this phrase expresses the aspiration that we, and everybody else, ...