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December 08, 2015
A portrait of the place where Evangelical politics and climate change meet
The climate talks in Paris are in their second week, and it's sometimes difficult on...
August 2015
August 14, 2015
I’ve written a lot of stuff this week! A Roundup
It's been a hectic few weeks for me, and a lot of pieces I've been...
July 2015
July 14, 2015
The New Republic’s review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s necessary new book
Ta-Nehisi Coates is quickly becoming one of America's great public intellectuals. Bijan Stephen, an...
July 13, 2015
Could there be an ISIS without an Islam?
Speaking of catching up on things I've missed while I've been gone, I was asked my...
July 11, 2015
How a subway step explains Ferguson
At Religion Dispatches, Andrew Aghapour has a great piece about the cognitive psychology behind our failures in blame....
July 10, 2015
Explanations and story-telling, or how to write about science
I've had a steady gig at The Daily Beast for a half-dozen months or so which,...
July 02, 2015
My Interview with David Pizarro for Religion Dispatches
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing David Pizarro, professor of psychology at Cornell University...
June 2015
June 07, 2015
Trigger warnings are more important than spoiler warnings, so why are they more controversial?
This post originally appeared on my new website, which you should check out. A few...
May 2015
May 17, 2015
Chris Stedman on MSNBC: “This is a really good thing, and I think people of faith should agree”
My good friend and founder of this blog, Chris Stedman, was on the Melissa Harris-Perry...
May 11, 2015
My review of Dan Ariely’s new book, “Irrationally Yours”
Dan Ariely was kind enough to hook me up with a review copy of his...
May 08, 2015
My review of Lisa Miller’s “The Spiritual Child”
My latest for The Daily Beast went up this morning. Nothing will protect our children like a...
April 2015
April 20, 2015
From the archives: the vanguard fallacy and embattled purview
I've stumbled on another great piece, this one by friend of the blog, Marcus Mann:...
April 17, 2015
From the archives: are we “getting” Islam?
More forgotten content from the archive, based on a comment by Sean Faircloth: It's worth noting...
April 16, 2015
From the archives: Humanism as community, not philosophy
Another post I stumbled on and liked: I think Humanism works best as a community...
April 16, 2015
Remember when Sam Harris said religion was worse than rape?
There have been some issues on Patheos involving image use and attribution. Now that NPS is on Patheos, what images...
April 15, 2015
From the archives: the case for affirmation and accommodation
NonProphet Status goes much further back than my involvement. I've been looking through our archives and...
March 2015
March 28, 2015
Why men don’t touch each other anymore
I've been thinking about friendship and male intimacy for a few years now, prompted by...
March 25, 2015
The CNN atheist special covered American Atheists more than atheism in America
Last night, two friends and I watched the CNN atheist special, and I spent from...
March 24, 2015
Vindicating Chris Stedman: Reddit’s atheism forum is the third most toxic on the site
My good friend and founder of this blog, Chris Stedman, got into a lot of...
March 18, 2015
Atheism, Islam, and Race (Ctd)
Timberwraith had a great comment on yesterday's piece about atheism, Islam, and race: The notion that...
March 17, 2015
What atheists still don’t get about racism and Islam
There's a fantastic post at Vox discussing the racial fall-out of recent controversies surrounding Ferguson and the...
March 13, 2015
What good are billboards
I’ve been struggling to figure out the intended purpose of belief driven billboards. For example...
March 12, 2015
Al Jazeera on New Atheism’s hypocrisy toward Islam
Usaid Siddiqui at Al Jazeera America published a fantastic editorial on the tendency of New Atheists to...
February 2015
February 25, 2015
Daniel Loxton on the future of skepticism
Daniel Loxton, editor of Junior Skeptic and friend of the blog, recently spoke to io9 about the...
February 18, 2015
The three marks of secular Lent
There are three marks to the traditional Catholic Lent: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. When we...
February 18, 2015
Atheist lent, why it matters, and also what should I (and maybe you, if you’d like) give up?
It wasn't until I started studying psychology that I began to see religion from less of...
February 17, 2015
Vox’s primer on microaggressions
Microaggressions have been getting more attention lately, and Vox, modern home of explanatory journalism, has put...
February 16, 2015
The hidden wisdom of anxiety
Charlie Kurth, an assistant professor in philosophy at Washington University in St Louis, has a...
February 13, 2015
The New Yorker on the Chapel Hill Shootings
Philip Gourevitch at the New Yorker is skeptical about how we respond to the parking...
February 12, 2015
Responses to the Chapel Hill Shooting
I've been following the response to Tuesday's murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill,...
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