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January 2019

January 28, 2019

The Problem with “Thoughts and Prayers”

The use of the phrase "thoughts and prayers" in the wake of mass shootings and...

January 10, 2019

Reaching ‘Faith Healers’ Is an Urgent Public Health Need. How Do We Do It?

Our species has spent thousands of years trying to use magic to cure diseases. When...

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...

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...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Born Free (of God)

I have to admit that I feel a bit embarrassed when it comes to my...

February 2016

February 03, 2016

A Little Birdie Told Me to Do It

In my last post, I compared the behavior of a serially mendacious hospital chaplain, who...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

The Chaplain’s Cat Logic

Most cats understand the word no, despite all appearances to the contrary. But to them...

January 20, 2016

Isn’t There Something in the Bible About Lying?

“We talked about this before,” Keith told the hospital chaplain. “Stephanie is an atheist, and...

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 06, 2016

“God is Good,” But for What?

“Funny, profane and adamantly atheistic,” was the phrase the Washington Post used to describe me...

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...

December 04, 2015

Why “Prayer Shaming” Is a Red Herring

It was surprising enough to see politicians called out for prayerful inaction. Then the outrage...

November 2015

November 06, 2015

Near-Death is but a Coma-Dream

The eyes of skeptics did a collective pirouette when, in 2012, neurosurgeon Eben Alexander’s published...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

Miracle Girl?

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

October 09, 2014

The receiverless prayer

Prayer, as traditionally packaged and sold, is one of the least tenable religious ideas of...