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June 2018

June 29, 2018
In May of 2018, the Council on Foreign Relations organized a workshop on "Religious Literacy...
June 22, 2018
As outrage spread in response to the U.S. policy of separating children from parents at...
June 18, 2018
Atheists aren’t just fleeing war and famine — they’re also fleeing the very real threat...
June 18, 2018
The Russian World Cup is well underway, and whenever I catch a glimpse of Colombia's...
June 09, 2018
If you believe that human beings are responsible for fixing the world's problems, populism can...

May 2018

May 31, 2018
One reason I resist strict religious/secular binaries is because shared human behaviours often warrant closer...
May 26, 2018
Colombians will rarely ask you your religion. Why would they, when “Catholic” is the default...
May 07, 2018
The current deluge of “religious freedom” laws have a single purpose:  to let narrow-minded believers...

April 2018

April 07, 2018
I feel a little unkind saying it, because people so fervently need to believe, but...
April 03, 2018
Julian Baggini, founding editor of The Philosopher's Magazine, asserts that a search for common ground between...

March 2018

March 26, 2018
Conservative Christians are biding their time to if not implement a divorce ban restrict it...
March 15, 2018
How American Christianity Perpetuates: Reasons #3-5 Public shaming by elected officials. That sums up reasons...
March 13, 2018
What do skydivers and mystics, for example, have in common? Their thrilling payoffs are completely...
March 07, 2018
How American Christianity Perpetuates Reason #1: Skeptics Inadvertently Enable It As I read the new...

February 2018

February 26, 2018
Contrary to what ancient Christian theologians hypothesized, the universe was not necessarily created from a...
February 20, 2018
During the decades I lived in Saudi Arabia, I eventually stopped noticing the dense black...
February 12, 2018
A double tragedy occurred in January on South Dakota’s iconic Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, two...
February 08, 2018
It’s bad enough, but the real issue isn’t the silliness of a few dozen South...
February 06, 2018
A recent post in Hemant Mehta’s The Friendly Atheist blog about a lawsuit against a...
February 01, 2018
For long centuries, the Christian establishment has promoted the conceit that reason and religion are...

January 2018

January 27, 2018
The fundamentalist Christian Right movement has changed its strategy but not its stripes as it...
January 16, 2018
A standard “From the Pulpit”-type article in a recent edition of the Sioux Falls (SD)...
January 12, 2018
Apparently, would-be Muslim refugees to the United States and mainly-Christian interfaith proponents already here are...
January 10, 2018
Fascinating new research explores how we came to be what we are.
January 09, 2018
Whether it’s Republican voters who think wealthy tax cuts will benefit them or Democrats who...

December 2017

December 04, 2017
What would we do without the media to tell us how great science is? The...

November 2017

November 22, 2017
The Cassini space probe has a hefty price tag, not only in material but also...
November 16, 2017
According to Richard Feynman, philosophy of science is for the birds. Philosophy of science is...
November 09, 2017
Racists have always used science as intellectual cover for their bias. Why is it such...
November 08, 2017
Attempts to separate church and state are fuelling powerful debate in America. But what about...
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