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May 2016

May 10, 2016

Living In Sin? Why Secular People Should Support Polyamory.

Mary, an electrician, and Bob, an administrative assistant, are happily married, and have been...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Holy Moses?

Passover will pass over on Saturday...and I couldn’t care less. So what, you may say,...

April 18, 2016

Is God Needed For Finding Meaning and Purpose? Science Says No!

Caption: Image of man thinking about religion, courtesy of Cerina Gillilan. Imagine the following...

April 14, 2016

What is the Meaning of Life for You?

“What is the meaning of life?” I struggled with this question throughout my teenage...

April 12, 2016

Civil Conversations in Divisive Times

Interfaith literacy is an understanding of how different people live their beliefs and values and...

March 2016

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...

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 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 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 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 19, 2016

Sustained Conversations Change Us

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

November 2015

November 18, 2015

The Devil Lies in Ourselves

I don’t remember what led to this conversation, but I recall once telling my longtime...

November 15, 2015

“No True Atheist”: Freethinking, Dogmatism, and Interfaith Dialogue

by Andrew Phelan I can’t tell you the relief I feel everyday when I wake...

November 13, 2015

The Catholic Atheists of Québec

For more than 200 years, Québec was the most religious Canadian province. Now they are...

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...

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 29, 2015

Origin Story

By Stephanie Savage - The first play my boyfriend Keith and I attended together was...

October 22, 2015

Getting My Own Story Straight

by Dale McGowan It’s easy to get your own story wrong. Selective memory takes a messy life and creates a narrative...

October 14, 2015

The Pantheists: Nature is God

| By Dale McGowan | Part of an ongoing series on The Unpigeonholeables Pantheism,...

October 09, 2015

Deists: Believers in a different kind of creator

According to a 2005 Baylor University study, about a third of U.S. religious believers hold...

October 08, 2015

The Southern Baptist Cafeteria

| By Dale McGowan | There's a Southern Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Does a Liberal Humanism Follow from Atheism?

Does being an atheist imply anything about one's ethics or politics?

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....

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Being Both: The OTHER great book on mixed-belief marriage

I’m working on a few posts about In Faith and In Doubt, my book about...