By Rudy Barnes, Jr.             Hardly a day passes without a news story on how religion motivates hate, violence and barbaric acts o...

 By Rudy Barnes, Jr., December 22, 2014             Christmas is about the coming of peace in a troubled world.  It is more than a Chri...

  By Rudy Barnes, Jr.             Recently a Muslim woman in North Sudan was convicted of apostasy and sentenced to death for marrying ...

  By Rudy Barnes, Jr   Is religion reasonable or ridiculous?   Consider this aphorism that is attributed to either St. Augustine or Th...

By Rudy Barnes, Jr.      When it comes to defining standards of legitimacy (what is right and wrong), half the world’s popu...