by Heather Hastie | Apr 5, 2016 | Religion, US Politics
Most reasonable people, including myself, have been appalled by the possibility that Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States. He is currently way ahead in the delegate count and there’s a mathematical possibility that he’ll reach the...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 1, 2016 | US Politics, Women
Trump’s response to Chris Matthews in an MSNBC Town Hall is well known by now: https://youtu.be/i2mHh9TtEks Trump clearly didn’t have a response ready for this question and was thinking on his feet. His immediate instinct though was that women are doing...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 8, 2016 | US Politics, Women
8 March is International Women’s Day. Although women have made enormous strides towards equality just in my lifetime, there are still millions of women who are subjugated and even in the West, still plenty of anti-women laws. There are many countries I could...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 8, 2015 | Atheism, Religion
Last Friday (4 September) regular commenter on Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True website Ben Goren, wrote a guest piece: The One Question a Christian Can’t Answer. It was about the big problem with Christian belief: why God doesn’t intervene to...