Author: Adam Lee

I joined Patheos in January 2013, and I’ve been writing here ever since. That’s nine years – a respectable tenure by any standard. Patheos offered me a new home when I departed Big Think, for which I’m grateful. They’ve always respected my editorial independence and never sought to steer me away from writing about whatever…

Greetings! I’ve been away from the blog for a while. Apologies for the unannounced absence. I didn’t fall off the edge of the flat earth or anything like that. I took what I intended to be a short hiatus in October, which ended up lasting longer than I planned. There’s a story behind that, which…

The Pacific Republic’s advance team meets the U.S. prison-industrial state in battle.

I’ve written about the Catholic church’s decades-long conspiracy to protect the sexual predators in the priesthood, and their belated and inadequate efforts to atone once the truth got out. It was evil on an industrial scale – but it wasn’t unique. This is a pattern in corrupt institutions of all kinds. Time and again, when…

The leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention defy, then grudgingly submit to, a demand that they reveal what they knew about sexual predators in the denomination.

Commonwealth: A Novel of Utopia, part 3, chapter 4 Author’s Note: This is an excerpt from my novel Commonwealth. The rest of today’s installment is free, but only on my Patreon site. If you want to read the next part today, it’s already up on Patreon as well. You can sign up for as little…

The best piece of moral wisdom in the Bible is the Golden Rule: “As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” —Luke 6:31 Of course, this principle isn’t unique to Christianity. It can be found across many religions and cultures. But where so many other moral ideas from…

The religious right has immunized themselves against empathy, but now we’re in the throes of a crisis where empathy is vital for survival.

By James A. Haught When I was young in the 1950s, Episcopalians – the American wing of the Anglican faith founded by Henry VIII – were the pinnacle of the high-steeple elite. Bankers, business presidents, top lawyers, society doctors, Rotarians and other country-clubbers filled the pews and vestries of ornate churches. They sent their sons…

The Pacific Republic’s rescue team is found out.