Author: Ophelia Benson

In 2001 Ratzinger issued an order ensuring the church’s investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret.

More concerned about the ‘eucharist’ than about the molested ‘minors.’

If there’s a God gene, there must be a hat gene, and a jeans gene, and a singing gene, and…

‘Racial slurs would not be tolerated or defended, but the use of sexist language was acceptable.’

It is not being homosexual but the prevailing atmosphere of homophobia that makes some people miserable.

Even a cursory review of the report reveals many potential flaws.

If the idea of God is inexpressible, just get on with the gardening.

A skeptical massage therapist/science writer is being sued for being ‘offensive.’

Punish girls for taking pictures of each other semi-naked, do nothing about boys who distribute the pictures.

In case after case after case, I’ve been impressed with the sincerity with which people tell their stories, the power of feelings connected with this.

John Mack claimed that he could think of no better explanation for his patient’s abduction stories than that they were true.

Canadian government matches funds raised by Little Women For Little Women in Afghanistan.

At Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship ‘special pre-election seminar’

Being gay in Bangladesh isn’t easy.

The strongly patriarchal nature of South Asian societies ensures even worse treatment for lesbians than for gay men.

God is silent and inert, the evidence is inadequate, and the universe is not the one predicted.

Chris Bertram asks why the British left reacted the way it did.

She rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa – poor women.

Article 37 of Maryland’s constitution provides that “no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God”

God didn’t do it, he wasn’t there at the time, and besides he’s sorry.