Terry Firma, though born and Journalism-school-educated in Europe, has lived in the U.S. for the past 20-odd years. Stateside, his feature articles have been published in the New York Times, Reason, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Wired. Terry was the founder and Main Mischief Maker of Moral Compass, a now-dormant site that pokes fun at the delusional claim by people of faith that a belief in God equips them with superior moral standards. He was the Editor-in-Chief of two Manhattan-based magazines until he decided to give up commercial publishing for professional photography... with a lot of blogging on the side. These days, he lives in an old seaside farmhouse in Maine with his wife, three kids, and two big dogs.
“In American politics, where has God gone?” asks columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. in the Washington Post. I’m fairly certain that none of us here would have any trouble providing all kinds of evidence of voters and politicians not only mentioning God, but putting the Almighty front, left, and center. Dionne surely knows that, too, so he was just being a bit hyperbolic. Here’s his more serious point: Read more
A week ago we learned of rumors that Ken Starr, then the president of Baylor University, the biggest Baptist school in the world, was going to lose his job over campus rapes that he had looked into with little enthusiasm, in an effort to protect Baylor’s popular football program. Two days later, Baylor’s board of regents announced that Starr would merely be demoted, from president to chancellor. Now it’s time for act three. The embattled Starr will be leaving Baylor’s executive offices altogether, he told ESPN. Read more
