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March 2016

March 22, 2016

The Secret Secular Handshake

“You’re certainly colorful today. Something for Easter?” said one of my many specialist physicians, referring...

March 17, 2016

Saving Lives Using Reason and Compassion

(image credit) “If others have half the experience I had today, they will be completely...

March 16, 2016

The Donald Made Them Do It

I’ve long nicknamed the GOP, God’s Official Party. But lately, the Republican Party has seemed...

March 09, 2016

Caught in the Web of @theist Dating

In Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye’s daughters sing, Matchmaker, matchmaker, Make me a match, Find...

March 06, 2016

Secular Civic Engagement and Your Life Purpose

I remember how in November 2013 my wife (and fellow Intentional Insights co-founder) and...

March 03, 2016

Born Free (of God)

I have to admit that I feel a bit embarrassed when it comes to my...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Don’t Let God Be Your Driver

You know those people who have the "God Is My Driver" bumper sticker on their...

February 25, 2016

Dropping the Mic on God: 9th Century Edition

Jainism is an atheistic religion that's mostly about pacifism and nonviolence--but that doesn't keep Jains from unleashing the...

February 25, 2016

The Trumping of America

The 2016 Republican primary race seems to have been conceived by a coked-up Hollywood satirist....

February 23, 2016

A Secular Purpose-Driven Life

By Gleb Tsipursky How can you find purpose and meaning from a secular perspective?...

February 18, 2016

The Long Goodbye for an Atheist-Positive President

I have long harbored a fantasy that President Barack Obama is not a Christian. No,...

February 14, 2016

A Valentine’s Day Poem Massacre

Dale McGowan penned a sweet, secular love letter to his wife for Valentine’s Day in...

February 08, 2016

Do You Need God for Life Purpose?

Religion is only one among many ways of developing a personal sense of life meaning...

February 08, 2016

The Secular – Religious Dance

The understated humanist and atheist presence at the Parliament made the gathering poorer. It's time...

February 05, 2016

The Taboo of Atheism in Egypt

Insulting Buddhism or Hinduism is not punishable by Egyptian law, but insulting Islam, Christianity or...

February 03, 2016

A Little Birdie Told Me to Do It

In my last post, I compared the behavior of a serially mendacious hospital chaplain, who...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Born This Way?

Our species is suffering from the post-traumatic stress of 120,000 generations in hell. By Dale...

January 28, 2016

A Teacher in the South

The moment I stopped waffling between agnosticism and atheism, I was sitting at the wake...

January 25, 2016

The Chaplain’s Cat Logic

Most cats understand the word no, despite all appearances to the contrary. But to them...

January 20, 2016

Isn’t There Something in the Bible About Lying?

“We talked about this before,” Keith told the hospital chaplain. “Stephanie is an atheist, and...

January 19, 2016

Sustained Conversations Change Us

Slogans like "religion is evil," and "atheists are going to hell" still frame the discussion....

January 13, 2016

At Sea in the Gulf of Understanding

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

January 06, 2016

“God is Good,” But for What?

“Funny, profane and adamantly atheistic,” was the phrase the Washington Post used to describe me...

January 05, 2016

The Catch-22 of Religious Privilege

The stark choice of the privilege-defenders: Oppose privilege, and you're an oppressor; ignore it, and...

January 04, 2016

Seeking a New Year’s Evolution

Even ardent believers in evolution often don’t truly understand it. A case in point recently...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

A Sensitive Subject: On Family and Sincere Insensitivity

For my religious family after my deconversion, finding the right balance of sensitivity has been...

December 22, 2015

My Personal War on Christmas

It should be obvious by now from some of my previous posts that I had...

December 17, 2015

Because the Bible Tells Me So

As a Jewish-agnostic Unitarian, I was a gefilte fish out of water when we...

December 10, 2015

Riding the Hippocampus Hobby-Horse with Santa and the Coca-Cola Polar Bears

It was some time before I realized that my coma-dream was a form of...

December 02, 2015

Myth-Taken by Santa

“Santa is a fake!” I said to my mother, scandalized. I thought about it for...