Here it is, the final issue of 2015, issue #24 of this year, and issue #228 in the Medical Examiner’s long history. The next edition, Issue #229, will be dated January 8, 2016. This may be our best issue yet, beginning with the One-Two punch on page 1: constipation and our can’t fail holiday diet. Does it get any better …
Church Chat
Not to be a wet blanket on the eve of The Big Holiday, but this video offers a fascinating look at the origins of many Christmas traditions. After watching this, you might be sorely tempted to tear that “Keep Christ in Christmas” sticker off your bumper. With all due respect, he was never there to begin with. You may be …
Church Chat
Well, here we are on one of the holiest days on the Christian calendar. Easter is right up there with Christmas as a keynote date for Christians. Of course, some would say it’s right down there with Christmas. Not every Christian is on board with these holidays. In Colonial times, Christmas was viewed as a pagan celebration by many, and …
Thursday: Music Video Day
If this doesn’t prove once and for all that Christmas honors the baby Jesus, nothing does. Note: for legal reasons, the rapper you have just witnessed now goes by the name Froggy Fresh. Now go buy a donut.
Church of the Infinite Chasm
This past week I ran across someone who is surely one of the most articulate advocates of atheism on the planet, one Jaclyn Glenn. She is an astute observer of lots of stuff: she is in med school, so science is on her radar screen, as is Christianity, her former religion and the religion still practiced by her family; and …
I Hate Monday
I hate to rain on everyone’s parade, but this I Hate Monday will focus on The Big Day, aka tomorrow, aka Christmas Day. The thing about Christmas – and saying anything negative about it – is that in the eyes of most it’s a sacred day. On the one hand, it’s widely viewed as the holiest day on the Christian …