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October 2015

October 06, 2015

Catching the rainbow

| By Dale McGowan | Our family has a longstanding relationship with the speed of...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

The Planned Parenthood Debate 101: What You Need to Know

Most people know about the Planned Parenthood debate. But not everyone understands just how important...

September 29, 2015

Does a Liberal Humanism Follow from Atheism?

Does being an atheist imply anything about one's ethics or politics?

September 24, 2015

Carl, Francis, and Elizabeth: A Church/State Test

Is the U.S. visit of the head of the Catholic Church one big church-state violation?...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Anti-Theists and Diplomats: The Roundtable

Earlier this month, Peter Mosley and Kaveh Mousavi described why they identify as anti-theists, and...

June 11, 2015

Listening to the Atheist Diplomats

Are anti-theists and diplomatic atheists really like the cartoons they draw of each other?

June 10, 2015

Listening to the Anti-Theists

How best to approach religion and the religious is one of the central questions among atheists....

March 2015

March 11, 2015

How to Reconcile God and Evolution…and How Not To

“We need to bring everything in our lives under the Lordship of Christ, and that...

February 2015

February 10, 2015

Evolution is Our Story

And what a story it is.

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Breaking out of the silo

[Fourth in a series on communication. Start at the top.] Two of the corners of...

January 25, 2015

Silos

[Third post in a series on communication. Start at the top.] There’s a natural and...

January 24, 2015

A tale of two fingers

[ Part 2 of a series on communication. Back to Part 1. ]   I’ve never...

January 23, 2015

Can You Hear Me Now?

About five years ago, several things happened in a short time that got me thinking and...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Why I Tell Everyone I Meet That I’m an Atheist

Guest post by Ali Berman - It’s not the first thing I say as I...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

The invisible secular humanists

The false notion that only the religious (or even less credibly, only Christians) respond compassionately...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

Raising (Actual) Freethinkers

After 20 years as a parent, I've learned that the phrase "I'm not a parent myself, but..."...

October 09, 2014

The receiverless prayer

Prayer, as traditionally packaged and sold, is one of the least tenable religious ideas of...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Being Both: The OTHER great book on mixed-belief marriage

I’m working on a few posts about In Faith and In Doubt, my book about...

September 26, 2014

Sam Harris, Meet the Secular Support Movement

Guest post by Rebecca Hensler - So much has been said regarding Sam Harris’ recent...

September 26, 2014

Seeing the Spectrum: Six types of atheists

One of the best attempts I've seen to turn the vague mumble "Yeahsure, there are...

September 10, 2014

Getting the focus right for nonbelief

If you identify with a religious denomination, researchers almost certainly know how many of you...

September 05, 2014

The invisible atheists

Picture an atheist. If you’re like most people, you’re probably picturing a middle-aged white guy...

September 03, 2014

Welcome to the Spectrum!

Patheos is a house with 19 rooms. Twelve of those are devoted to individual worldviews, from...

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