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The climate talks in Paris are in their second week, and it's sometimes difficult on...

It's been a hectic few weeks for me, and a lot of pieces I've been...

  Ta-Nehisi Coates is quickly becoming one of America's great public intellectuals. Bijan Stephen, an...

Speaking of catching up on things I've missed while I've been gone, I was asked my...

At Religion Dispatches, Andrew Aghapour has a great piece about the cognitive psychology behind our failures in blame....

I've had a steady gig at The Daily Beast for a half-dozen months or so which,...

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing David Pizarro, professor of psychology at Cornell University...

This post originally appeared on my new website, which you should check out. A few...

My good friend and founder of this blog, Chris Stedman, was on the Melissa Harris-Perry...

Dan Ariely was kind enough to hook me up with a review copy of his...

My latest for The Daily Beast went up this morning. Nothing will protect our children like a...

I've stumbled on another great piece, this one by friend of the blog, Marcus Mann:...

More forgotten content from the archive, based on a comment by Sean Faircloth: It's worth noting...

Another post I stumbled on and liked: I think Humanism works best as a community...

There have been some issues on Patheos involving image use and attribution. Now that NPS is on Patheos, what images...

NonProphet Status goes much further back than my involvement. I've been looking through our archives and...

I've been thinking about friendship and male intimacy for a few years now, prompted by...

Last night, two friends and I watched the CNN atheist special, and I spent from...

My good friend and founder of this blog, Chris Stedman, got into a lot of...

Timberwraith had a great comment on yesterday's piece about atheism, Islam, and race: The notion that...

There's a fantastic post at Vox discussing the racial fall-out of recent controversies surrounding Ferguson and the...

I’ve been struggling to figure out the intended purpose of belief driven billboards. For example...

Usaid Siddiqui at Al Jazeera America published a fantastic editorial on the tendency of New Atheists to...

Daniel Loxton, editor of Junior Skeptic and friend of the blog, recently spoke to io9 about the...

There are three marks to the traditional Catholic Lent: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. When we...

It wasn't until I started studying psychology that I began to see religion from less of...

Microaggressions have been getting more attention lately, and Vox, modern home of explanatory journalism, has put...

Charlie Kurth, an assistant professor in philosophy at Washington University in St Louis, has a...

Philip Gourevitch at the New Yorker is skeptical about how we respond to the parking...

I've been following the response to Tuesday's murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill,...