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June 2017

June 22, 2017

WE Does Not Include YOU

LDS Mormon critics who insist that “testimony meeting is not the place to come out”...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

2017 Is the Future

Many of us will file this past year under “death”, for the passing of a...

November 2016

November 04, 2016

Not a Christian Nation

There’s nothing happy about this year’s Presidential Dolt-Fest. But one possibility that this electoral disgrace...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Where to Go? Destinations and Mormon Shame

I’m coming a bit late to the party. I was on an international jaunt during...

June 2016

June 06, 2016

Amurrica’s Anti-Christian Prosperity Gospel

Amurrica is the land of opportunity, we say. And we measure the realization of that...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Religion’s Placebo Effect(s)

If you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome—and reading blogposts can give it to you if you...

January 2016

January 11, 2016

Guest Post: The Tyranny of Rule(s)

Blog Editor's Note: Dear readers, all seven of you—On account of a confrontation this past...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Don’t Let Go and Let God

One way to dismiss the story and all that it says about how to get...

September 2015

September 20, 2015

The Tao of Hula

What we really need to do, as a modern, scientifically-enlightened, empirically-minded, rational society is ban...

September 15, 2015

Lose Your Religion, And Follow Me

At one of the several crucial moments of the narrative, Jesus tells his followers that...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Mike Pence Wears Pink Panties

The Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, or RFRA's, that the states are adopting, pell-mell, have the...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

Confessions of a Hindu Mormon

What keeps me warmly Mormon through the long nights of cold, cutting dogma and bad...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

Religious Freedom, Out and In

We twenty-first-century pundits have become rather accomplished at discussing freedom of religion and freedom from religion. There...