Author: Ophelia Benson

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.

Dr Mohini Giri works to rescue Indian widows from living death.

She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.

Very nasty stuff

Human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals.

She was regularly beaten, left to sleep in her own urine, had her teeth knocked out, was hospitalised after a beating when she tried to break out of the orphanage.

Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress; fifteen died.

Books by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.

Debate human nature.

Relativity has been attacked in the name of US pragmatism, German idealism, English Hegelianism, French Bergsonianism (by fellow Jew Henri Bergson!), Soviet “diamat” (dialectical materialism) and Nazi “Deutsche Physik”

We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.