Author: Mark Cagnetta
Mark Cagnetta holds a doctorate degree in organizational leadership and is a retired police captain with more than twenty-five years of law enforcement experience.
The Soul of the City
Author’s Note: This article is dedicated to Tom Flynn, for all the time and effort he spent working with me on it. In 1977, I wrote a story for my hometown newspaper, the Haverhill Independent, titled “The Man the Marx Brothers Loved to Hate.” It was about a relatively famous Russian immigrant named Louis B. …
Apostolic Loyalty
Irrespective of one’s experience as a law enforcement officer, it was my police department’s policy to have interested parties apply, test, and interview for specialized positions within the agency. At what turned out to be the midpoint of my career, I decided to submit my name for the tactical response team, our version of SWAT. …
An Evolution of Lies
As I made the short walk back to my house from my mailbox, shuffling my stack of mail along the way, an impersonally addressed, oversized postcard caught my eye. So intriguing was this invitation to an upcoming event, I began perusing its content before I reached the front door. Apparently, per the return label, “Emmanuel”—the …
Think Before You Like: Social Media’s Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed
Think Before You Like: Social Media’s Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed, by Guy P. Harrison (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1633883512) 380 pp. Softcover, $18.00. Since I initially read Guy P. Harrison’s book Think Before You Like: Social Media’s Effect on the Brain and the Tools …
Jesus Is a Myth: A Rebuttal to Bill Cooke
“To imply that the supernatural and clearly nonexistent character known to us as Jesus, the son of God, was based on a real person named “Yeshua” reeks of desperation.”
It’s Time to Hold God Accountable
Given the continual, reliable failure of prayer, either God has little affinity for his creation or he simply does not exist.
Angel Unaware: An Atheist’s Perspective on Child Suffering
When I retired to Arizona in 2008, I never imagined—given its proximity to very liberal California and its distance from the prototypical “South”—that I would be living in the heart of the Southwest Bible Belt. But that is where I, an atheist, took up residence and began my postretirement career. As I am hardly one …
Why I Am Not a Catholic: Sundays with Estelle
“Naturally, my mother saw to it that her religiosity was duly forced upon her unsuspecting children.”