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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 01, 2016

The Most Religious Song in the Songbook

Name the most genuinely religious song in the songbook that the LDS church has approved...

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...

April 2015

April 04, 2015

Outsourcing My Easter

I do my exercises faithfully. Not only because I had back surgery fifteen years...

December 2014

December 24, 2014

The Ritual Transgression of Time

One of the more bizarre practices among world religions occurs annually among a small group...

October 2014

October 26, 2014

Magic Underwear and the Fish Priests of Babylon

The Metropolitan Museum of Art describes the 7th century, BCE, cylinder seal as "Hero with...

September 2014

September 21, 2014

Religion Without Church

One tag line the Sunday Assembly has used reads: "All the best bits of church,...