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January 2014

January 08, 2014
There's a science-fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle called The Gripping Hand. In...
January 08, 2014
"I'll just leave this here, shall I," said the Captain, her lazy Texan drawl absolutely...
January 06, 2014
A social experiment is technically just an experiment run on people, to study how groups...
January 05, 2014
After I deconverted, my husband was convinced that I'd change dramatically. I wanted to talk...
January 03, 2014
I've seen some additional--and dramatic-- stories of Christians who did not actually experience the 180...
January 02, 2014
One thing that seems to crop up in the news over and over again are...

December 2013

December 31, 2013
Long ago, Charles Babbage came up with designs for a machine that could accurately create...
December 29, 2013
I love bad advice. I admit it. I've always had a huge affection for bad...
December 26, 2013
I hope your holidays are going well so far! Welcome back. I realized not long...
December 24, 2013
Christians call their religion the "good news," but there's even better news today in the...
December 23, 2013
Weddings make me so emotional. They're such a raw, visceral statement of hope and love,...
December 22, 2013
This time of year seems quite appropriate to talk about a virgin birth. Or rather,...
December 20, 2013
There's this TV show about rich backwoods hicks with ZZ Top beards. It's called "Duck...
December 19, 2013
When I was Christian, I thought that being a Christian was this awesome and wonderful...
December 18, 2013
One of the hardest parts about deconverting out from under a fundagelical marriage was unlearning...
December 16, 2013
One of the greatest of all the benefits of Christianity is supposed to be hope....
December 13, 2013
Today I want to talk about something I call "dancing bears"--that strange phenomenon you see...
December 11, 2013
Even if it's totally contradictory, people will believe anything--if the person talking about it sounds...
December 09, 2013
If you've ever had a friend who was dating an extraordinarily bad person, you know...
December 08, 2013
I used to have such a love-hate relationship with cooking, but especially with baking--the bane...
December 05, 2013
Today we're going to be talking about Christians who claim to know stuff they really...
December 03, 2013
The other day I ran across this blog entry about the links between super-duper-racist rednecks...
December 01, 2013
The other day, a Christian radio host accused megapastor (and smirking Lizard King of misogynists)...

November 2013

November 28, 2013
I've got the turkey in the oven at last (we're moving a bit late at...
November 28, 2013
There's this guy named Teo Bishop who left Christianity to become a druid and he...
November 26, 2013
I saw this impassioned plea made by a Christian for people to agree to disagree...
November 24, 2013
Today we're going to talk about cognitive dissonance, that feeling of discomfort humans get when...
November 23, 2013
As a rule of thumb, if your position depends upon lying, then it's not the...
November 21, 2013
UPDATE: Hi! I get a lot of drive-by commenters on this particular piece so I...
November 20, 2013
Way back in the 1970s, a British Christian named Doreen Irvine wrote From Witchcraft to...
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