About Stephanie Savage

Miracle Girl is a soufflé of skepticism, science, and politics, served with a generous portion of satire and spiced with all manners of geekery. And it all began with a Miracle of God™. You wouldn’t think God would save the life of someone the Washington Post later called, “Funny, profane and adamantly atheistic.” Stephanie Savage’s attitude is naturally born of a childhood free of religion. Indeed, her first published work appeared in American Atheist Magazine. Yet, the birth of Miracle Girl truly began when Stephanie emerged from a series of strokes and a six-week coma to proclamations of a miracle. Since then, she has refocused her career from satirical fiction to secularist nonfiction, publishing an article in Skeptical Inquirer and multiple essays in Free Inquiry. If God saved her for a reason, he certainly does work in mysterious ways.

All Posts by Stephanie

Born Free (of God)

I have to admit that I feel a bit embarrassed when it... read more

The Trumping of America

The 2016 Republican primary race seems to have been conceived by a... read more

The Long Goodbye for an Atheist-Positive President

I have long harbored a fantasy that President Barack Obama is not... read more

A Valentine's Day Poem Massacre

Dale McGowan penned a sweet, secular love letter to his wife for... read more

The Zika Humanitarian Challenge for the "People's Pope"

My boyfriend Keith and I walk/hike through a different botanic garden or... read more

A Little Birdie Told Me to Do It

In my last post, I compared the behavior of a serially mendacious... read more

The Chaplain's Cat Logic

Most cats understand the word no, despite all appearances to the contrary.... read more

Isn't There Something in the Bible About Lying?

“We talked about this before,” Keith told the hospital chaplain. “Stephanie is... read more

At Sea in the Gulf of Understanding

Living with Religion, is how my essay “Sympathy for the Devil-Believers” is... read more

"God is Good," But for What?

“Funny, profane and adamantly atheistic,” was the phrase the Washington Post used... read more

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