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February 2016

February 12, 2016
The idea of a loving God solves not just the problem of mortality but that...
February 09, 2016
My boyfriend Keith and I walk/hike through a different botanic garden or nature reserve every...
February 08, 2016
Religion is only one among many ways of developing a personal sense of life meaning...
February 08, 2016
The understated humanist and atheist presence at the Parliament made the gathering poorer. It's time...
February 05, 2016
Insulting Buddhism or Hinduism is not punishable by Egyptian law, but insulting Islam, Christianity or...
February 03, 2016
In my last post, I compared the behavior of a serially mendacious hospital chaplain, who...

January 2016

January 29, 2016
Our species is suffering from the post-traumatic stress of 120,000 generations in hell. By Dale...
January 28, 2016
The moment I stopped waffling between agnosticism and atheism, I was sitting at the wake...
January 25, 2016
Most cats understand the word no, despite all appearances to the contrary. But to them...
January 22, 2016
My kids learned about evolution from pink deer, scowling crabs, and chewable vitamins.
January 22, 2016
At least 12 children have died in 3 years from preventable causes in one Idaho...
January 20, 2016
“We talked about this before,” Keith told the hospital chaplain. “Stephanie is an atheist, and...
January 19, 2016
Slogans like "religion is evil," and "atheists are going to hell" still frame the discussion....
January 13, 2016
Living with Religion, is how my essay “Sympathy for the Devil-Believers” is labeled in the...
January 06, 2016
When President Obama talks about mass shootings, sometimes the strongest message comes across without words.
January 06, 2016
“Funny, profane and adamantly atheistic,” was the phrase the Washington Post used to describe me...
January 05, 2016
The stark choice of the privilege-defenders: Oppose privilege, and you're an oppressor; ignore it, and...
January 04, 2016
Even ardent believers in evolution often don’t truly understand it. A case in point recently...

December 2015

December 30, 2015
For my religious family after my deconversion, finding the right balance of sensitivity has been...
December 22, 2015
It should be obvious by now from some of my previous posts that I had...
December 21, 2015
By Fr. Carl Chudy - Coalescing around Climate Change During our Thanksgiving weekend, our dialogue...
December 17, 2015
  As a Jewish-agnostic Unitarian, I was a gefilte fish out of water when we...
December 10, 2015
  It was some time before I realized that my coma-dream was a form of...
December 05, 2015
Frosty the Snowman and Jesus the Christ are the same guy.
December 04, 2015
It was surprising enough to see politicians called out for prayerful inaction. Then the outrage...
December 02, 2015
“Santa is a fake!” I said to my mother, scandalized. I thought about it for...
December 01, 2015
Once Sandlin rewired his brain for the backwards bike, he couldn't ride a regular one....
December 01, 2015
Jonathan MS Pearce is preparing an anthology of humanist, atheist, scientific and philosophical poetry and...

November 2015

November 30, 2015
There is a crucial turning point in the Santa game, and Virginia had reached it....
November 27, 2015
Thinking their own way out of the Santa myth can prepare kids to think their...
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