Morality in Practice

Last week, I was ragging on people who deny meaning in this life or put...

I'm in transit today.  It's the weekend of the Harvard-Yale football game, and I'm headed...

So after kicking around the idea of sin-eating -- trying to take on the burden...

If someone has made up their mind to do something evil, is there any benefit...

I'd like to expand the discussion on taking on the burden of someone else's sin...

I finally made time to get a flu shot at a local CVS and so...

UPDATE: there are Harry Potter spoilers in the comments section.  If this is a problem...

There was a lot of backlash to my Soup Nazi Approach to Sexuality post and...

I warned commenters against turning the Soup Nazi Approach to Sex post into an abortion...

Looking through the comments thread for “Soup Nazi Approach to Sex” it looks like there...

An anonymous commenter asked: This is a little off topic but as a pro-choicer do...

Flesh to fiber-optic interface from Battlestar Galactica Alex Knapp likes to kick around transhumanist problems...

In the aftermath of the successful assassination of Osama bin Laden, reporters uncovered a deeply...

If you're not too familiar with 'privilege' or usually don't like when people use it,...

Joel Marks has written an essay for The New York Times Opinionator page titled "Confessions...

While we wait for the last responses to the Ideological Turing Test to trickle in,...

Voting for the Christian round of the Turing Test is ongoing!   Get thee there...

The Turing Test is ongoing (two more entries going up today, and more through the...

In the wake of New York’s legalization of gay marriage (Excelsior!) and the Pride marches...

Hermant Mehta of Friendly Atheist has ended his atheist fundraiser to help two churches that...

Just a cautionary note: trying to figure out how to love your enemies is something...

"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things.  Fear of a name...

Sam Harris is blogging about morality and free will, and one of his examples puts...

In the comments thread that spun off of the discussion of whether an atheist could...

When I wrote about my dilemma on how to deal with an Orthodox Jewish girl trying...

I got into an argument in the comments section of Friendly Atheist's latest installment of...

I ended up in a lot of conversations about forgiveness and whether hatred necessarily warps...

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he...

P.Z. Myers has a post up lambasting Christian apologist William Lane Craig for his defense...

This Easter season, I made it to two days of the Triduum: Maundy Thursday and...