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William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Zingrone: Millennials and the Bible

April 25, 2014

A recent editorial in USA Today titled “Give Millennials good reasons to read the Bible” points out the fact that 70 percent of those 18-29 in America...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Zingrone: Redefining marriage

April 18, 2014

Richard Nelson who sets himself up as the “Commonwealth Policy Center” from Cadiz has written letters to The Murray State News Opinion Editor a few...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Zingrone: Times have changed

April 11, 2014

Each of the 115 posts I’ve written in the past five months since my blog of the same name as this column “Dispatches from the New Enlightenment”...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Zingrone: What did you expect?

April 9, 2014

Once again over at Rachel Held Evans’ blog, our mostly 30-something semi-liberal evangelical Xian friends are struggling with the divisive actions of...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Zingrone: The ‘Big 3’ religions

March 26, 2014

There are more than 700 different religions in the world today, all with their special claims to knowledge about a spiritual realm, unique origin myths,...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Public Preaching: Harmless noise, obnoxious license

March 11, 2014

Last week’s The Murray State News Faces and Places series installment featured Cash Willis, senior from St. Louis, Mo., and his preaching to the Monday...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Zingrone: The constant exchange

March 7, 2014

It’s everywhere. In the print media, magazines and newspapers, online in blogs, news sources, chat rooms, Facebook discussions, tweets, at speaking presentations...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Zingrone: Our story, it’s for real

February 27, 2014

Human evolution. The study of our origins. Paleoanthropology. Biological anthropology. Whatever you want to call it, it’s for real. This is not a competing...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Zingrone: Scripture is Nothing but Pseudoscience

February 23, 2014

Richard Nelson, executive director of the Commonwealth Policy Center based in Cadiz, Ky., wrote a letter to the editor in last week’s The Murray State...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Zingrone: We are outgrowing religion

February 14, 2014

We are outgrowing religion: it’s a beautiful thing. What if someone living in Germany, France or England in the mid 1600s roughly 400 years ago, at...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Bill Nye: Science changes the world

February 7, 2014

Monday night at the CFSB Center wasn’t a love fest but it was close. I’d been hearing all day from my students, “You going to Bill Nye?” “I love...

William 
Zingrone
Associate professor of psychology

Volcanic activity has scientific explanation

January 31, 2014

Eyjafjallaj?kull. Say that fast 10 times. OK just once. I’m clueless how to pronounce it and I’m quite sure my English-ized attempt at pronunciation...

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