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November 2018

November 09, 2018

Christians Are Divided on the Legalization of Cannabis. Why?

Cannabis is legal for recreational use in Canada now. It's already far exceeding most peoples' wildest expectations...

June 2018

June 22, 2018

Bible-Shaming Won’t Work: The Love Thy Neighbour Problem

As outrage spread in response to the U.S. policy of separating children from parents at...

February 2018

February 20, 2018

Circumcision re-enters genital-mutilation debate

During the decades I lived in Saudi Arabia, I eventually stopped noticing the dense black...

October 2017

October 12, 2017

Tyson’s Blunder: All Caps SCIENCE and Critical Thinking

My least favorite science-fan meme douched up science march season earlier this year. "The good...

February 2017

February 18, 2017

Collaborative Truth-Seeking

Caption: Arguing people (Kick-ads, used with permission) Written by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Intentional Insights Co-Founder...

February 10, 2017

The Broken Sexual Ethic of Faith and My First Time

I enjoy sex. I enjoy it a lot. I have a very healthy view and...

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 01, 2016

Don’t Be Fooled This Giving Season: Give Wisely!

Caption: Facepalm by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (AJ Cann, Flickr) ___________________________________________________________________ There are millions of charities...

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...

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 19, 2016

How To Be Perfect!

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

August 2016

August 13, 2016

Your Feelings Are Not Your Fault (Mostly)

By guest blogger Hunter Glenn Caption: Happy and sad person (image credit) ________________________________________________ We all...

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...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

The Song Remains the Same (and it is discordant)

One of my favorite movies is Mr Smith Goes to Washington. It is a story...

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 19, 2016

Quit Telling Addicts They Need God to Recover!

The best thing we can do for addicts is make them feel empowered to take...

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 30, 2016

The Abuse of Use and Disuse

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

March 21, 2016

When Saints Go Missing, Do They Make a Sound?

The details of the 4th century life of St. Catherine of Alexandria are painstakingly woven into...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Sustained Conversations Change Us

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

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 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 25, 2015

Pay Attention, Media! The Lord’s Prayer IS NOT BANNED in UK Cinemas!

The U.S. has no monopoly on the religious persecution complex. By Jonathan MS Pearce.

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...

October 2015

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 19, 2015

In China, ‘Heaven’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think

Thanks to a lexical gap in English, translated Chinese philosophy sounds awfully religious -- even...