The vagaries of fate often determine whether or not we escape our circumstances to rise above our economic surroundings. But perhaps our own actions can affect that fate. That is the issue at the heart of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tony Award-nominated play from 2011, Good People, which weaves that thought-provoking notion around an entertaining tale of haves and have-nots and … [Read more...]
‘Good Without God’ a well-written case for ethical non-belief
Books by atheist authors have flooded the market in recent years, and some, such as Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, exhibit a stridently anti-religious tone. Now comes a more nuanced and balanced book written by Greg M. Epstein, the humanist chaplain at Harvard University. Good Without God critiques religious belief in a respectful … [Read more...]