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September 2015

September 09, 2015
This guest post is by Dylan Walker, who blogs at SkeptimusPrime.net. The journey from a...
September 06, 2015
There's been a fascinating discussion going on lately regarding whether or not a non-Christian would...
September 06, 2015
Whatever else you can say about my mother, she is nothing if not persistent. She and...

August 2015

August 31, 2015
My colleagues Hemant Mehta and Matthew Facciani have started some interesting discussion, if even just in...
August 29, 2015
Earlier I wrote that after couples figure out that they would rather have each other...
August 28, 2015
This video will show that the Christians turned the man Jesus into a god. Actually,...
August 24, 2015
People often tell me, "Don't read the comments." Very often, they're right, but I can't...
August 23, 2015
By far, the vast majority of the work I do as a secular activist is...
August 21, 2015
A problem I faced when I deconverted was not knowing how to separate out how...
August 20, 2015
This is an open letter to my religious friends, with something of a Christian bent...
August 17, 2015
This might sound a bit strange to some people, but dreaming is not much of...
August 12, 2015
Last time we talked, I mentioned that mixed-faith marriages are, despite evangelical Christian leaders' insistence...
August 11, 2015
We are not written in stone. I joked recently about my embarrassment for having taken...
August 10, 2015
I've mentioned here before that I'm currently in a mixed-belief* marriage (my wife is a Christian...
August 07, 2015
On Thursday morning, I found myself hearing some surprising but pleasant news: The excellent blogger Ed...
August 05, 2015
I realize that title sounds a little provocative, but it's the truth: there is one...
August 04, 2015
In 2005, Stephen Colbert gave us one of the greatest lexical gifts in recent years when, in...

July 2015

July 31, 2015
Everywhere we look, we see attempts to shoehorn us, define and redefine us, box us...
July 29, 2015
Belle Gibson is a pseudoscience hawker and the creator of an app you undoubtedly have...
July 22, 2015
The problem is that "condoning sin" is really a code-word. Like a lot of fundagelical...
July 22, 2015
I am an unrepentant fan of the writing of John Green, who is perhaps best known for...
July 18, 2015
I've mentioned before that I have a background in literature, and one of my particular interests...
July 13, 2015
Despite my upbringing in conservative, evangelical Baptist churches, I don't often feel like I can claim...
July 08, 2015
My newborn daughter was recently born and officially diagnosed as a Deaf-Blind. Of course, we...
July 05, 2015
I consider myself a thoroughly secular person, but I like to keep a foot in...
July 03, 2015
I guess the Bible does have some truth to it after all: the ways of...
July 02, 2015
I'm the child of a Baptist minister, and as such, the Bible was an intimate part...
July 02, 2015
[Today's guest post is written by Holly Baer, a religion and gender studies major at the...

June 2015

June 30, 2015
As I've alluded to in previous posts, my background is in education, specifically English language arts....
June 24, 2015
There are few values for me that rank higher than fairness. As an inveterate arguer...
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