Author: Janet L. Factor
Janet L. Factor grew up in Barberton, Ohio, and graduated from Hiram College, where she absorbed the ideals of the liberal arts tradition. She is the founder of Springfield (Illinois) Area Freethinkers. Factor has written for Free Inquiry and the Secular Humanist Bulletin, where she is a contributing editor and for five years has authored the column Heart & Mind.
The Ties that Bind
We know that doing away with gods and supernatural persons and powers is not an end. It is a means to an end: the real end being the happiness of man. —Robert Green Ingersoll On a small shelf above my desk sits a carving of wood in warm tones of brown and gold. It is …
The Gift of a Wise Man
myrrh (mûr) n. An aromatic gum resin obtained from woody plants of the genus Commiphora, valued in the ancient world as a perfume and as an embalming agent. Traditionally, a gift of the Magi to the infant Jesus. Not so long ago, I inadvertently found myself a party to a conversation at my health club. …