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March 17, 2019
Western Atheism’s Proving Grounds for White Supremacy: A Humanist’s Appeal for Cultural Reckoning
Let's begin with a story. In the last few weeks I've posted a few essays...
March 15, 2019
Anti-Desperation: The Compassionate Humanist’s Most Important Fight
Let's begin with a story. This one's mine. I pass dozens of street peddlers and...
March 13, 2019
Resisting the Power Grab: When Atheist Discourse Seeks Religion’s Social Power
Let's begin with a story. It's not mine. It belongs to Frantz Fanon, one of...
March 08, 2019
What Is The Good Fight? Colombian International Women’s Day, Performative Activism, and Socialism
Let's begin with a story. Last year around this time I was in Bogotá, finishing...
March 03, 2019
Verbing Gender: Where Humanistic Practice and Fixed Labels Diverge
Let's begin with a statement. I have no inner gender identity. To me, gender...
February 2019
February 27, 2019
White Supremacy and Global Humanism: Lessons from the Blisteringly Stupid European Hunt for Our Aryan Forebears
Let's begin with a story. There have been nerds in every era, and the 18th...
February 23, 2019
White Culture in Colombia: Moving from Tourist Stereotype to Global Humanist
Let's begin with a story. I have a nagging feeling I've mentioned this one before,...
February 18, 2019
Trauma, and How Humanism Must Bridge the Religious Divide
Let's begin with a story. My parents and I are on better terms, so we...
February 15, 2019
What Words Are These? Linguistic Precision, and the Search for Better Terms
Let's begin with a story. A year ago I was saying goodbye to Canada, about...
February 07, 2019
The Duck Dynasty Healthcare Plan; Or, Why This Column Doesn’t Do “Hot Takes”
Let's begin with a story. In this story, I'm obviously a secular humanist, because I've set up,...
February 05, 2019
Making Space for the Spiritual in Secular Storytelling
Let's begin with a poem. Specifically, a poem of mine published today for Rattle's Poets...
February 01, 2019
The Regulatory Impulse: How Far Do We Trust Our Fellow Human Beings?
Let's begin with a story. This one comes from The Guardian, Jason Hickel's opinion piece titled...
January 2019
January 28, 2019
The Scale of Our Solutions: Ethical Limits in Secular (Sci-Fi) Storytelling
Let's begin with a story. When my eldest nephew was a wee sprog of four,...
January 25, 2019
Venezuela and Global Humanism: How to Scale Your Response to International Politics
Let's begin with a story--or so I was hoping to say, in a post this...
January 18, 2019
Reading Contemporary Religious Texts While Humanist
Let's begin with a story. During my first Colombian Christmas, I took part in Novena--nine...
January 17, 2019
Who Saves the Day? The Problem with Agency in Secular (Sci-Fi) Storytelling
Let's begin with a story. Specifically, Hao Jingfang's Hugo-Award-winning "Folding Beijing". It's a novelette well...
January 13, 2019
What’s Up with Our Bad Guys? Ethical Weakspots in Secular (Sci-Fi) Tales
Let's begin with a story. I start my posts with those words to call attention...
January 09, 2019
How Ahistoricism Weakens Our Secular Storytelling
Let's begin with a story. Back in grad school, as one does, I attended academic...
January 04, 2019
The “Jesus” Year: On Birthdays, Benchmarks, and Kindness
Let's begin with a story. In this story, somewhere around the Year of the Consulship...
December 2018
December 23, 2018
Relative Privation, Colombian Christmas, and… the USSR? Someone’s Been Hitting the ‘Nog Too Hard!
Let's begin with a story. It's my first Christmas in Colombia, and I'm currently revising...
December 18, 2018
Aspirational Humanism: 70 Years of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
Let's begin with a question: How often do secular folk fixate on the differences between...
December 14, 2018
Who Is Our Family? Secular Community & Colombian Nativity
Let's begin with a story. This one is a story in process: my own, as...
December 09, 2018
Advent in Colombia: Beyond the Secular/Spiritual Divide
Let's begin with a story. In the early years of humankind, when our ancestors struggled...
December 04, 2018
Standardization Pressures: Can Good Humanism Emerge in Institutions?
Let's begin with a story. Last week, a friend posted his relief at having received...
November 2018
November 27, 2018
It’s the System, Sadly: Western Litigiousness and Humanist Setbacks
Let's begin with a story. When I first came to Colombia, my faltering Spanish was...
November 22, 2018
Can We Blog Our Way to a Better Discourse?
Let's begin with a story. One magical day in 1985, Marty McFly, freshly returned from...
November 19, 2018
Political Gish Gallop: The Fight New Atheists Trained For, Then Forgot
Let's begin with a story. In 2014, Bill Nye did something profoundly ignorant, in the...
November 16, 2018
A Reciprocity of Kindness, not Violence, in Stories Old and New
Let's begin with a story. Not mine this time--something by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. In...
November 14, 2018
Fake News and the Frenzied Mob: How Violence Follows Fixation
Let's begin with a story. Not mine this time--a breathtaking piece by Marcos Martinez, as...
November 11, 2018
Centennial Stories: Lessons from Trauma 100 Years after WWI
Let's begin with a story. Or, no, maybe not today. Let's start instead with a...
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