Hokum-Balderdash Assay

The brouhaha is now all over the blogosphere. Instead of swallowing the consecrated wafer given to him by the priest, a college student too...

Former Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sagely advice for his troubled country: Be patient with the headache-inducing situati...

I just learned via psychologist of religion Michael Nielsen that later this year psychologist David Myers ' new book, A Friendly Letter...

Wishful thinking is part and parcel of childhood. The brains of the young are still very much in the process of developing "higher...

I recently discovered that the Philippine Star has daily theological one-liners printed at the bottom margin of the back page. You can'...

It's one thing when the man and woman on the street trips and makes a logical booboo. It's brow-raising and elicits incredulity when...

Just got wind of a 3-year Stanford University clinical trial that's underway to study the efficacy of Healing Touch (HT) [1]. What is HT...

That deluded priest Fernando Suarez is back in the country. At the end of this month the Pied Piper is leading his flock to Montemaria, Bat...

Last week Fr. Fernando Suarez celebrated a healing Mass in Los Angeles, California. Some 14,000 attended. Well you're in for a surprise...

As always the barmaid hits the nail on the head. She tells Jesus and Mo , "You cannot escape the fact that when you say 'God says X...

Imagine the following: There is in fact a god or gods. This deity or committee of supernatural beings in fact created the universe, is omnip...

When I asked a Christian friend how her church defined faith, she directed me to the bible, specifically to Hebrews 11:1. Her text follows t...

The number of variants among believers was brought home to me recently when I confronted Cathy of Touched by a Miracle about my com...

Some 25 years ago psychologists Sheryl Wilson and Theodore Barber identified what they called fantasy-prone personality (FPP). The 14 charac...

While in a car on a 10-minute ride with, among others, a pastor and his wife, the conversation turned to health and disease. The pastor'...

In his March 20 2008 article " Reflections on healing, faith, funds, Fr. Suarez " Fr. Virgilio Aderiano Abad Ojoy, theologian and ...

The end of the world ... again. The group follows no Bible. It doesn’t even have a name. The followers of "Pagtulun-an sa Dios Amahan...

Another child dies because of religion , because of belief in the supernatural, because of faith in the supposed incredible/unlimited power ...

[I sent a copy of the following to the Inquirer but doubt it was published] In his March 14, 2008 article " Faith Healers " Michae...