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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"...

February 2017

February 07, 2017

I’m Sorry For My Part In Creating The Monster And I Hope You Forgive Me

A few hours ago I watched with slim hope and then great sadness as I...

February 07, 2017

The Science of Solving Alternative Facts

Caption: Image of CNN with quote from Kellyanne Conway saying “Spice gave alternative facts on...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

What Would Gandhi Do About Trump? High-Time For a Science Of Wisdom

Source: wikimedia commons/ Mahatma Ghandi close up potrait Written by Charles Cassidy MPhys, Director of...

January 21, 2017

A Weird American in Trump’s Post-Truth America

Caption: Truth and lies (Open Clipart-Vectors, Pixabay) ________________________________________________________________ It is an undeniable fact that Donald...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

Fear and Anger Over the Ohio State Knife Attack

Source: Muteb Gz/Flickr I felt a stab of cold fear when I first learned about...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

4 Questions to Ask Before Wearing a Safety Pin

Caption: Image of safety pin with words superimposed “You are safe with me. I stand...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

How Our Thinking Errors Cause Us To Misinterpret Politics

Caption: Image of Trump and Clinton (Wikimedia Commons) Debate checkers usually focus on evaluating the...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Why the Pundits Are Wrong About Clinton Dominating the Debate

(image credit) The vast majority of pundits declared Hillary Clinton the decisive winner...

September 11, 2016

On Being a Weird American on 9/11

Caption: Person saluting the American flag (image credit) ______________________________________________________ On this anniversary of the 2001...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Two by Two, Kentuckians Led Astray By Ark Encounter

A message from Satan near the entrance to Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter brought me back...

July 25, 2016

Police Racial Profiling – How Neuroscience Can Help

____________ The deliberate murders of white police officers in Baton Rouge and Dallas...

July 14, 2016

Revenge for the Orlando Shooting Spree!

Caption: Yelling man (Image credit) _______________________________________________________ The June 12 mass killings in Orlando was...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

Confessions of a Former Nun Wannabe

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ. I thought everything about the Church was...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Trump Feels Your Anger and Anxiety: How Neuroscience Helps Explain Trump’s Triumphs

Caption: Donald Trump pointing (image credit) Despite desperate opposition from the Republican establishment, Trump...

April 07, 2016

Making America Safer From Muslim Terrorists

(image credit) How do we make America safer from suffering the same kind of...

March 2016

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 01, 2016

What if she comes anyway?

I stepped to the mirror and began to turn as my daughter watched between her...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

The Trumping of America

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

February 22, 2016

Hiding Darwin’s Disbelief

Part 3 in a series on the mangling of Darwin's Autobiography Back to Part 1...

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...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

“How Was Christ made? I’m going to tell you…”

"Do you know how Christ was made? I’m going to tell you: Christ was made...

November 17, 2015

Interrogation of Aude: “How is it possible that I cannot believe in our Lord!”

A 14th century French woman struggles with doubts in front of the Inquisitor.

November 16, 2015

A Doubter in the Inquisitor’s Chair

"The soul?" she said. "Personally, I don't see anything come out of men or women...

November 11, 2015

When One Partner Leaves the Faith: The Story of Hope and David

She was drawn to the intensity of his faith. When he said he didn't believe...

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 05, 2015

Armin Navabi: Ex-Muslim Turned Global Atheist Activist

When he was just 12 years old, Armin Navabi threw himself off the top floor...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Useful Monsters and the Problem of Fear

By Dale McGowan - Beneath the amber waters of the River Tees in Northern England...