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March 2015

March 10, 2015
What keeps me warmly Mormon through the long nights of cold, cutting dogma and bad...

February 2015

February 28, 2015
If Mormonism is a heresy, it’s only a Christian heresy.  Which means that Mormonism's very conflict...
February 13, 2015
There’s a point in the play, before everything comes apart in disaster, in which the...
February 03, 2015
Perhaps it's an example of historical over-reach.  But I'm reasonably comfortable suggesting that the LDS...

January 2015

January 16, 2015
We twenty-first-century pundits have become rather accomplished at discussing freedom of religion and freedom from religion.  There...
January 03, 2015
  My distinct impression is that Avi Steinberg hopes to be able to say in...

December 2014

December 24, 2014
One of the more bizarre practices among world religions occurs annually among a small group...
December 22, 2014
  Where are the bonfires?  What we should see around the country these days are...
December 06, 2014
  "You're not a religious man?"It's a question of mild incredulity followed by a statement...

November 2014

November 29, 2014
  Here we now, as December comes upon us, open another Xmas season, to remind...
November 23, 2014
About a month ago, a rather extraordinary fellow named Saji Thomas contacted me about a...
November 08, 2014
Physicist Lawrence Krauss apparently suggested this past week that religion could disappear in a single...
November 03, 2014
Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Politics in the...

October 2014

October 26, 2014
The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes the 7th century, BCE, cylinder seal as "Hero with...
October 19, 2014
I had work to do, in my hotel room, while attending the great, big Conference...
October 11, 2014
Let’s talk about condiments.  It turns out that spicy pickles reveal a lot about religion....
October 04, 2014
I'm going to break a sacred rule which I would, myself, insist my own students...

September 2014

September 29, 2014
When U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups determined that Utah's constitutional ban on polygamy was unconstitutional last month,...
September 21, 2014
One tag line the Sunday Assembly has used reads: "All the best bits of church,...
September 15, 2014
I don't have anything against atheists.  Atheism makes perfect sense to me.  Really.  Half the...
September 10, 2014
Let's engage for a moment in what is sure to seem like a hopelessly pedantic...
September 09, 2014
If you've been following the ongoing identity crisis into which Mitt Romney's presidential aspirations tossed...
September 08, 2014
Science and religion, we know, are incompatible.  Theist fundamentalists tell us so.  Atheist fundamentalists tell...
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