by Heather Hastie | May 16, 2016 | Religion, Women
In the comments section of my last post I wrote: The relative power of women in the early Catholic Church is something that they like to keep quiet nowadays. There’s the obvious argument that if women could be priests and bishops 1,700 years ago and much closer to the...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 7, 2016 | Freedom of Speech, Great Britain & Europe
Note: This post contains depictions of Mohammed. If you find such things offensive, do not read this. If you choose to read anyway, don’t blame me. When I wrote about the Charlie Hebdo massacre a year ago, I headed the post with this quote from Stephen Fry. It...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 21, 2015 | Religion
I’ve been unable to post to my website for almost two weeks, but thanks to the heroic efforts of BuildBusiness (who host my website) over several days, I’m back up and running. A couple of days ago, Jerry Coyne kindly posted something I’d written but...