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June 2017

June 04, 2017

Toxic Theology: There Are No Coincidences

In its quest to infuriate by greater and greater degrees, this blog presents Toxic Theology,...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Mormons Do Not Just Believe

I've seen the Broadway musical twice. I'm on record in The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis...

February 01, 2016

Not the ‘Why’ but the ‘What’ of the Western Wall

"Eff the ineffable", wrote Terry Eagleton in an attempt to figure out Samuel Beckett's work....

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...

December 2015

December 19, 2015

A Dis-Christian Nativity

Taxation, some say, started it all. Or a census. Augustus, some say, decreed an accounting....

November 2015

November 30, 2015

If God Does Not Die

Nietzsche, famously or infamously towards the end of the nineteenth century, declared the death of...

September 2015

September 03, 2015

God’s Law Does Change

I've been hearing a lot about "God's Law" in my local congregation, recently. Particularly the...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

God’s Body Just Isn’t What It Used to Be

One of the things that keeps Mormonism from being Christian is its dogmatic attachment to...

June 05, 2015

Archimedes’ Divine Lever

Archimedes is reported to have said, lo, these more-than-two-millennia ago, that if he were given...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Americanism: Our Common Cult

Where are the bonfires? What we should see around the country these days are...

November 2014

November 08, 2014

The Death of Humanism in Our Religionless Future

Physicist Lawrence Krauss apparently suggested this past week that religion could disappear in a single...

October 2014

October 11, 2014

God Comes in Flavors

Let’s talk about condiments. It turns out that spicy pickles reveal a lot about religion....

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Paradiddling All Over Religion

I don't have anything against atheists. Atheism makes perfect sense to me. Really. Half the...

September 10, 2014

I Believe in You, Rocky

Let's engage for a moment in what is sure to seem like a hopelessly pedantic...