Sometimes I want to explore a topic in depth, so I organize the posts on that topic into a linked sequence. Every featured sequence has its own index page, which lists all posts in the series. You can click on any of the series below to see its index page or browse all index pages here.
- Reason Rally/American Atheist National Conference (Mar ’12) – A time to come together and pick (hopefully productive) fights with everyone on my team!
- Debating Gay Marriage (Feb ’12) – A controversial speaker visits my alma mater, and, with the help of a conservative friend guest posting, we debate his claims about gay marriage’s negative effects.
- Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition (Jan ’12) – Parsing Plato, Aristotle, and Thomism with the help of some friendly Dominicans.
- Guestblogging at Daylight Atheism (May ’11) – When Adam Lee went on vacation, I stepped in and wrote a series of posts on atheist tactics and the value of mockery.
- Ex-Gays and Debating Mores (Apr ’11) – A visit from a campus preacher sparks a controversy and some thoughts on appropriate ways to make controversial arguments as well as some discussion of sexual ethics.
- Defining Atheism, Defining Sacrilege (Feb ’11) – A discussion about P.Z. Myers turns into an argument about when, if ever, blasphemy is an appropriate form of protest.
- An Attraction to Orthodoxy (Feb ’11) – What should an atheist do when some Christian metaphysics start ringing true?
- Why I Like Covenant Marriage (Jan ’11) – Making a pitch to atheists on the value of covenant marriage
- Identifying Purposefulness (Jan ’11) – Three guest posters and I try to figure out how one could discern purposefulness in the natural world
- Can There be an Atheist Agenda? (Nov ’10) – After getting into a dispute with another atheist blogger, some consideration of what Atheists hold in common
- Eight Questions for Atheists (Oct ’10) – Taking on the Discovery Institute’s challenge
- Sin and Immorality (Oct ’10) – Where my understanding of sin overlaps and diverges from Christian thought
- Why I Don’t Believe (Sept. ’10) – Three questions for anyone trying to convert me
- A Religion I Like (Sept. ’10) – An attempt to give a portrait of the kind of religion I would believe in, by discussing the only one to which I ever tried to convert
- Gay Marriage (Aug. ’10) — Discussions of gay marriage, atheist marriage, vegan marriage and which of these should be forbiden in a theocracy
- Math and Morality (Aug. ’10) — An explanations of the underpinnings of my epistemology and my ethics. Starts with Flatland and topology and proceeds on through game theory and theory of vision (and, yes, I promise it all has to do with absolute morality)
- Granny Weatherwax and Discworld (Jul. ’10) — Casting about for a way to introduce and explain my philosophy on the new blog, I decide to channel one of the fictional characters who most shaped my thinking: Terry Pratchett’s Granny Weatherwax.
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