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June 2016

June 09, 2016

Why We’re Not Rational in Evaluating Others (And What The Science Suggests We Can Do About It)

(image credit) So imagine you are driving on autopilot, as we all do...

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 08, 2016

The Secular – Religious Dance

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

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Sustained Conversations Change Us

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

December 2015

December 01, 2015

Riding the Backwards Bike: A Christian at Skepticon

Once Sandlin rewired his brain for the backwards bike, he couldn't ride a regular one....

November 2015

November 19, 2015

The Compassion of Secular and Religious Voices

Guest post by Fr. Carl Chudy - I travel in and out of different...

November 10, 2015

The Big Reveal: Telling your religious partner you’re an atheist

Shortly after my wife and I started dating, I knew I wanted to marry her. Compared to everything else...

November 04, 2015

8 Red Flags in the Secular/Religious Marriage

By Dale McGowan Author, In Faith and in Doubt When I talk about red flags in...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

10 Ways Believers and Nonbelievers Make Great Marriages

Marriages between religious believers and nonbelievers are sometimes a nightmare of tension and conflict. Many...

June 2015

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...

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 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...