Does Our City Council Have a Prayer? By: David Roy I’d like to slip a few words into the verbal and legal dustup over prayer at Fresno’s City Council meetings. Let me start with the fact that, in the [...] Continue Reading
Religion & Philosophy
The Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Faith Calendar
Saturday, April 3 10:30 to 1:30 - Women of Wisdom: Gathering Spiritual Leadership at the Unitarian Universalist Church. 2672 Alluvial, Clovis. Sister Veena Kapoor, Rev. Natalie Chamberlain, and Abbess [...] Continue Reading
Progressive News Briefs
By: Mike Rhodes The Separation of Church and State The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) has warned Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin that sectarian prayers used to open Fresno City Council [...] Continue Reading
Waiting for Steinbock
By: Dennis Caeton Fresh from the pews of St. Paul Newman Center (a Catholic parish) in Fresno, a few weeks before my birthday, I felt compelled to enter the rare air of the Diocese, the [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion Is Not an Oxymoron
Apocalypse 2012 AD! By: David Roy The latest in a seemingly nonstop series of apocalyptic visions of the end of the world comes to us with amazing CGI (computer-generated imagery) virtuosity in the [...] Continue Reading
Schlepping over the Rainbow
By: Dennis Caeton The Questions It is in the trenches of Catholicism where the real clash of faith and the world goes on. That is where the priests are. And that is where the children are, floating [...] Continue Reading
And What Is Christian About That?
By: Roy David The January tragedy in Haiti, laid to waste by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, provided another opportunity for people who call themselves Christian to make some profoundly [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion… Is Not an Oxymoron
China's Clash of Religions By David Roy On my recent trip to China, I was struck over and over by the extreme contrasts between the newly emerging and highly commercialized China and the [...] Continue Reading