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Democratic Republic of the Congo, of course!

My daughter, Clara, is a bit of a geography nut. At the tender age of eight, I would venture to suggest that she knows more about world geography than most human beings. And it has nothing to do with her intelligence or our attempt to instill a love of geography in her. She simply became…

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A simple geographic reminder to those overly insistent, overly-aggressive people of faith

When someone becomes overly insistent and overly aggressive about the truth behind their deeply held religious beliefs, I like to remind them that their deeply held religious beliefs are almost certainly predicated upon geography. For the vast majority of people, religious belief simply correlates to where they spent most of their childhood. It is not…

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