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September 2018

September 02, 2018

Storytelling while Secular: Writing about Loss in an Indifferent Cosmos

Last week I offered up a rather dense introduction to the storytelling problem of "sacrifice"...

January 2018

January 10, 2018

Why Do We Believe in the Unbelievable? It’s Natural

Fascinating new research explores how we came to be what we are.

January 24, 2017

Freedom’s Path Series: Tales TRUMP Trust

This has nothing to do with President Trump. I just needed to use the word....

September 2016

September 19, 2016

How To Be Perfect!

(image credit)By guest blogger Hunter Glenn ______________________________________________________________________ Once, alchemists sought the secret formula for turning...

September 13, 2016

Want To Be Young and Healthy Forever?

(image credit) Can you imagine what it would be like to be young and healthy...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

Humanism and “The Other”

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Immigration and Refugees....

May 2016

May 05, 2016

Which Came First, the Science or the Atheism?

I used to joke that the chicken or the egg riddle was actually an evolution...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Your Fate is in Your Hands (except when it isn’t)

Today is the third birthday I wasn’t expected to celebrate. That makes it a very...

April 14, 2016

Unnatural Selection

After the publication of On the Origin of Species, religious naturalists found themselves in a...

April 07, 2016

Glimpsing Truth through the Blinders of Religion

Charles Darwin knew how explosive his theories would be—that’s why he sat on them for...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

The Abuse of Use and Disuse

Several years ago, Keith bought a set of very old encyclopedias. I can certainly understand...

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 22, 2016

Evolution for Breakfast

My kids learned about evolution from pink deer, scowling crabs, and chewable vitamins.

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 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 17, 2015

Because the Bible Tells Me So

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

November 2015

November 12, 2015

Winning the Everlasting Gobstopper of Life

In the coma-dream from which I awoke after my six weeks of coma, I was...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

Miracle Girl?

| by Stephanie Savage | It’s not every atheist who has the privilege of receiving...

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...