If we want a world for our kids to enjoy, we must act now! The velocity of the freight train we are on is too fast to make the curve we are taking to the future. We must jump off before we lose our ability to survive the leap. ( This is the 2nd Part […]
Author Archive: Ben Baughman
We Must Act Now, Part 1: Here We Go!
Don’t you love the word “modern”? If you see it on a sign for a motel, it means dated. Fifties or sixties maybe, but not current. It was the last of the descriptors of the Era of Enlightenment that denoted a period of stability. We did things a certain way. “Modern” was short-lived, because it was […]
Faith for The Non-Religious
I’m not an atheist. I’m not even a good agnostic. I guess that makes me a believer. I’m not religious. I don’t attend a church. I did. In fact, I pastored churches for over three decades. I tried to make them non-religious. It was like trying to make Congress not political. The nature of institutions […]
The Baseline
If I’m an atheist, I make it clear that I don’t believe in the existence of God. If I’m an agnostic, I make it clear that I don’t know what I believe about God’s existence. If I’m a follower of any religion, I make it clear what I believe about The God or Gods according […]
We Went Church Shopping Yesterday
Family was here. They like to attend church. So we went online to shop for a church. Just a one-day deal. We’d heard of a church that some friends of the family attended, so we tried to remember the name of it. We thought we’d found it. Service at 10:30. Perfect. Big church. Good music. […]
Freeing Jesus From Christianity
He needed freeing once before… From another religion… It changed the world. I hope we can help him escape again. The first time he was chained up it was in Jerusalem. There were followers there that wanted to make him the founder of a sect of Judaism. A radical bunch jail broke him and snuck […]
I’m Back!
So, what’s my excuse for not writing on my blog in the last 18 months? My computer broke. My arthritis kept me from typing. I was blown to Oz in a tornado and just got back. I had a full lobotomy and only now found a replacement brain. Lizzie (my dog) ate all my blog […]