Women are not equal in the U.S.

A new United Nations report says that it’s a myth that women are equal in the U.S. We aren’t. Far from it. From the report: US women do not take their rightful place as citizens of the world’s leading economy, which has one of the highest rates of per capita income. In the US, women fall …

And if there was no historic Yeshua ben Yosef?

This Salon piece (linked there from Alternet) lists five reasons that point to the notion that Jesus never existed. I find this conversation fascinating. If Jesus (as I know Jesus, the Jesus of my Sunday school lessons) wasn’t the son of God, was strictly a charismatic rabbi around whom a religion was built, would that …