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March 2012

March 25, 2012
It's Sunday morning, and I'm writing this on the train from Washington, D.C. back to...
March 22, 2012
My latest column has been posted on AlterNet, How Religion's Demand for Obedience Keeps Us...
March 21, 2012
Sometimes, when a comment thread bogs down in a long and protracted debate, highly enlightening...
March 21, 2012
Bloggers like me are faced with an eternal dilemma. When we write something controversial, people...
March 20, 2012
After writing my previous post chastising the National Atheist Party, I thought (and hoped) that...
March 19, 2012
In my essay "Into the Clear Air", I wrote about how people leaving religion often...
March 18, 2012
Well, this business with the NAP notwithstanding, the Reason Rally is swiftly approaching, and it...
March 16, 2012
There's a heap of news I didn't get to write about in greater depth this...
March 16, 2012
I'm getting excited for the Reason Rally next weekend in Washington, D.C., which promises to...
March 14, 2012
Last month, I posted my review of "An Unquenchable Thirst", Mary Johnson's luminous and enlightening...
March 12, 2012
In November, I wrote about Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, the Egyptian student and atheist who posted...
March 11, 2012
As long-time readers know, except on rare occasions, I don't write about my personal life...
March 07, 2012
The birth-control battle that's dominated headlines for the past few weeks seems to be winding...
March 07, 2012
In the Book of Exodus, there's a bizarrely out-of-place story that I've always found hilarious....
March 05, 2012
(Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with my policy for such...
March 03, 2012
You may have noticed that, according to the counter on the sidebar, I just passed...
March 02, 2012
I wanted to pull this exchange out of the comments, because I thought it was...

February 2012

February 29, 2012
The Christian right, both Catholics and evangelicals, wants to outlaw birth control. This isn't a...
February 27, 2012
This weekend, I spoke at the University of North Dakota, courtesy of an invitation from...
February 24, 2012
My post from last week, "The Abraham Test", provoked a vigorous discussion (225 comments and...
February 22, 2012
LONDON, February 22 - It's been a rough week for Richard Dawkins, prominent evolutionary biologist...
February 20, 2012
Via Slacktivist, I came across a post on the Christian blog Exploring Our Matrix that...
February 16, 2012
In my past writings, I've made it a hobby to call attention to potent, but...
February 15, 2012
Summary: The Roman Catholic equivalent of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Infidel". A luminous, extraordinary account of...
February 13, 2012
I don't think I've ever written this sentence before, but here goes: There's been so...
February 11, 2012
As NPR recently reported, there's a high price to pay for being a black atheist...
February 10, 2012
The story of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son on Mount Moriah is one of the...
February 06, 2012
Some days, I hate writing about atheism. I want to tell you why. Two weeks...
February 04, 2012
It's been a while since I last did one of these, but I want to...
February 02, 2012
When it comes to reproductive health in America, progress often seems like a one-step-forward-two-steps-back kind...
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