Periodically a blog or article will appear concerning the bible’s efficacy in providing evidence for one point or another. 

Here is the text of an article I wrote for Men's Fitness. For the article itself, along with pics, please check out the Men's Fitness Magazine website.

What is tradition? What does it mean to hold onto something, purely because it is traditional?

Today is March 16, 2010 - the 75^th day of the year on the Gregorian calendar.

Today is March 15, 2010 - The Ides of March on the Roman Calendar. It was on this day that Julias Caeser was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate in 44 BC.

Today is March 10, 2010. It's the 69th day of the year, and there are 290 shopping days left until Christmas.

On this day, in 1841, a trial of significance in the African slave trade was finally resolved in the US Supreme Court.

On this day, in 1965, 3,500 Marines landed, as a continued response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 1964, on the beached of South Vietnam - making them the first American combat troops involved in the conflict with North Vietnam. By the fall of Saigon, in April of 1975, over 500,000 Americans had served in vietnam and almost 60,000 American's had died there. 

Often in Springfield I hear and read comments professing both unconditional love for fellow citizens and disapproval of certain attributes. Nowhere is this dichotomy more pervasive than in the issue regarding equal rights of same-sex relationships.

Today, March 3rd, is the 62nd day of the year on the Gregorian Calendar...