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September 2015
September 23, 2015
The Algebra of Post-Deconversion Relationships
One of the inexplicable side effects - or maybe not, I don't know - of doing...
September 21, 2015
Opposing Religion Isn’t Always the Greatest Good
A few years ago, my colleague Hemant Mehta wrote a post over at Friendly Atheist entitled...
September 15, 2015
Doubt Is Not a Spiritual Health Problem
This is a part of an ongoing series following a campaign going on in central Illinois called...
September 14, 2015
Exchanging the Legend: On Reinterpreting Our Religious Pasts
This one time, I thought I felt the Holy Spirit moving in me. When I...
September 09, 2015
That time Pentecostals turned me into an atheist.
This guest post is by Dylan Walker, who blogs at SkeptimusPrime.net. The journey from a...
September 06, 2015
Is There Room for Doubt?
Whatever else you can say about my mother, she is nothing if not persistent. She and...
August 2015
August 31, 2015
The Balancing Act of Compromise and Integrity
My colleagues Hemant Mehta and Matthew Facciani have started some interesting discussion, if even just in...
August 24, 2015
Persuasion, Boundaries, and Respect in Mixed-Belief Relationships
People often tell me, "Don't read the comments." Very often, they're right, but I can't...
August 23, 2015
It Might Get Better, But It Hurts Now: Thoughts on Present Pain and Future Hope
By far, the vast majority of the work I do as a secular activist is...
August 20, 2015
Urban Legend Theology: An Open Letter
This is an open letter to my religious friends, with something of a Christian bent...
August 17, 2015
How I Lost My Music and Gained a New Song
This might sound a bit strange to some people, but dreaming is not much of...
August 11, 2015
Judge Us For Who We Are: A Reminder for The Backward-Looking
We are not written in stone. I joked recently about my embarrassment for having taken...
August 10, 2015
(Don’t) Stay Together for the Kids?
I've mentioned here before that I'm currently in a mixed-belief* marriage (my wife is a Christian...
August 07, 2015
A Toast to the Influencers
On Thursday morning, I found myself hearing some surprising but pleasant news: The excellent blogger Ed...
August 04, 2015
The Truthiness of the Matter
In 2005, Stephen Colbert gave us one of the greatest lexical gifts in recent years when, in...
July 2015
July 22, 2015
Infinities of Meaning: The Humanist Vision of The Fault in Our Stars
I am an unrepentant fan of the writing of John Green, who is perhaps best known for...
July 18, 2015
Saturday Poetry: The Awful Shame
I've mentioned before that I have a background in literature, and one of my particular interests...
July 13, 2015
The Last Refuge for Faith Healing: Mental Illness
Despite my upbringing in conservative, evangelical Baptist churches, I don't often feel like I can claim...
July 05, 2015
Vacuous Theology, Empty Morality
I consider myself a thoroughly secular person, but I like to keep a foot in...
July 02, 2015
Why Becoming an Atheist Made Me Appreciate the Bible More
I'm the child of a Baptist minister, and as such, the Bible was an intimate part...
June 2015
June 30, 2015
What I Wish I’d Said: A Lament from an Atheist and Former Teacher
As I've alluded to in previous posts, my background is in education, specifically English language arts....
June 24, 2015
Credit Where Credit’s Due
There are few values for me that rank higher than fairness. As an inveterate arguer...
June 18, 2015
A Time to Criticize and A Time to Shut Up
It's likely that by now, most of you who are reading this have heard about...
June 15, 2015
Love Is Not a Trump Card
Regardless of what you think of the Bible's overall message, it is hard to deny...
June 11, 2015
Community Matters
I'm going to say something that should be relatively uncontroversial...but which some people are likely to disagree...
June 05, 2015
Those Who Carry the Scars Must Remember
“Those who give the blows may try to forget, but those who carry the scars...
June 02, 2015
You Do Not Live Here
In his groundbreaking work Philosophical Investigations, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein put forth a famous thought...
May 2015
May 28, 2015
Strangled by the Church
autopsy: "an eye-witnessing," from Modern Latin autopsia, from Greek autopsia "a seeing with one's own...
May 26, 2015
Why I Won’t Stop Defending Religion
Those who know me well enough know that I am quite argumentative by nature. I've actually...
May 22, 2015
Different Skins: Three Perspectives on Empathy
One of my favorite American novels is Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel...
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