Musing on the Historical Kaldi …

Posted by Quixie at 5:57 PM

. It was in a cute little local coffee shop in Atlanta that I first heard of the legend of Kaldi and his dancing goats. I was standing in ...

Wm. Craig's "Four Facts" are Desperate and Downright Silly … (revisiting a post)

Posted by Quixie at 8:21 PM

W illiam Lane Craig is famous in Christian apologetic circles. Amazingly prolific, he is the darling of evangelical congregations that see...

The Arts as Religion Fades …

Posted by Quixie at 8:29 PM

. Chola bronze — Dance of Shiva A   friend recently suggested in a conversation that if it weren't for religion we wouldn't ha...

Quixie Reviews a Homeopath

Posted by Quixie at 4:02 AM

The following is in response to a blog post on Chandran Nambiar’s blog devoted to homeopathy. It was suggested that I read this blog ...

Review of Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist"

Posted by Quixie at 7:56 PM

. Bart Ehrman is a rock star. Well … as close to a rock star as a geeky Ivy League academic with tenure can get, anyway. After a long in...

Coriolanus (the motion picture) …

Posted by Quixie at 2:06 AM

Like practically everyone else in the English-speaking world, I had to read several Shakespeare plays when I was in high school: Julius ...

an end of theism …

Posted by Quixie at 4:46 PM

. I came across this video series yesterday and I found it such a fair and honest treatment of the subject it deals with that I thought I...

baby step trepidation …

Posted by Quixie at 5:41 AM

I recently played my first church gig. That first gig later led to singing at a memorial service, after which I was invited to attend a mee...

Dan Dennett: A rebuttal to Rick Warren

Posted by Quixie at 7:51 PM

JHC still online . . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:57 AM

I had posted these articles before, but the links were all broken. I am posting them again here. They present some of the Tübingen and Dutch...

Sam Harris at Changing Hands . . .

Posted by Quixie at 1:26 AM

I attended an appearance by Sam Harris at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe last night. He is in town to partake in a panel discussion at ...