Since I mentioned this in class I thought I’d post it.

My author page: http://lifeasahuman.com/author/marthasherwood/

http://lifeasahuman.com/2011/current-affairs/social-issues/sale-of-indulgences-usa-2011/  “Martha Sherwood draws a parallel between municipalities using fines as a source of revenue and the sale of Papal indulgences in 16th Century Europe”.

http://lifeasahuman.com/2013/religion/egotheism/  It takes genuine, altruistic spirituality to avoid making one charismatic leader’s self-serving image of God, or the collective image of some narrow special interest, the guiding principle of the new religion. Once this happens, the central role of organized religion in reinforcing a sustainable human community that nurtures all its members is fatally compromised, often in ways that make the old, unreformed belief systems, whose accumulated baggage sparked the initial reform, look benevolent by comparison.”

http://lifeasahuman.com/2013/current-affairs/social-issues/ask-lord-liverpool-ii-the-right-to-remain-silent/ “The Second Earl of Liverpool is again asked to comment on a contemporary legal issue. This time it’s the introduction of a videotaped confession (in this case, a confession of murder) as evidence in court.”

http://lifeasahuman.com/2013/current-affairs/social-issues/shantytowns-and-upscale-developments/”The contrast between homeless people living in makeshift plastic-covered huts in a church parking lot and a recent boom in building expensive apartments for students in Eugene, Oregon prompts the author to reflect on how growing inequity in income and access to the basic necessities of life has reached a morally unacceptable level in America.”

http://lifeasahuman.com/2012/current-affairs/politics/a-scientist-thinks-outside-the-box-the-null-hypothesis/ “Failing to respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinions about controversial scientific issues is bad pedagogy, and presuming that no legitimate controversy can exist, simply because the preponderance of evidence now at our disposal favors a particular theory, is bad science. How many theories, espoused within the last hundred years with as much fervor as those mentioned in the Tennessee statute, are now wholly or in part discredited?”