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April 2013

April 09, 2013

Am I enabling blasphemy?

While the commenting system changes over, some disputes in the content of the comments stay the same....

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Watch me discuss the Ideological Turing Test at Chicago Ideas Week!

In October, I was one of the religion panelists at the Chicago Ideas Week conference....

January 15, 2013

Cultivating Curiosity [Index]

Back in September, Bob Seidensticker of the Atheist channel took on a challenge to try 40...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

Handy Dandy Blogging Advice!

This weekend, I went up to Baltimore to attend a session of the Fall General...

November 11, 2012

Am I my schismatic’s keeper?

This post is part of a series discussing Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell. By the end of...

November 01, 2012

Ideological Fight Club

Julian Sanchez offers an antidote to poisonous political discourse that reads like a hybrid of...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Why Won’t You Argue What I Know You Believe?

Yvain has been reading Feser's The Last Superstition, and he has an excellent gloss of one...

October 08, 2012

Fending off near occasions of sin

Late last week, Xanthate asked: I got to ask, as a Christian, how do you feel...

October 07, 2012

“Just one more thing” on LARPing

Via statistician Andrew Gelman's blog, this description of Columbo's method seemed like a nice example...

October 05, 2012

You Shall Know Them By Their Fruits

Bob Seidensticker of Cross Examined (the one who sparked the discussion of the Atheist Prayer...

October 02, 2012

Turns out someone was actually converted by the LARPing strategy

Back in the archives of the Why I am Catholic repository of conversion stories comes...

October 02, 2012

Just Give Me One Good Reason Not to Change My Mind

Eli of Rust Belt Philosophy thinks my LARP Your Way to Truth advice is a...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

Erga Mortuos, Nihil Nisi Caritas

Chris Hallquist is asking whether there's any reason to read the works of the dead...

September 25, 2012

LARP Your Way to Truth

Over in the Atheist channel, Bob Seidensticker of Cross Examined is experimenting with prayer. He's...

September 06, 2012

If you can’t take the heat, turn into a tardigrade!

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" is a quote that is...

September 05, 2012

Ave atque vale, Jen McCreight

After enduring a coordinated, relentless campaign of harassment, Jen McCreight of Blag Hag is done....

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Welcome JT Eberhard to Patheos!

JT Eberhard, formerly of FreeThought Blogs and the Secular Student Alliance is moving to Patheos...

August 29, 2012

The Virtue of an Almost Right Solution

Earlier today, in my final Sondheim post, I was writing in praise of the grotesque....

August 29, 2012

Teaching Fish the Word for Water

In the last Sondheim Symposium post, I talked about Giorgio struggling with Fosca's implacable love....

August 22, 2012

Who Gets to Give the Courtier’s Reply?

How fortuitous that the same day I asked people to trust me and do the reading, Yvain...

August 17, 2012

The Danger of Cheap Shots

I was chatting with some Catholic friends, and (as happens more and more frequently as...

August 15, 2012

Q&A with Steve Dawson (Part 2)

Welcome to part two of my Q&A with Steve Dawson of the St. Paul Street Evangelization project....

August 15, 2012

Q&A with Steve Dawson (Part 1)

A little while ago, I mentioned the St. Paul Street Evangelization project on the blog....

August 12, 2012

“Didn’t you ever break on the floor?”

This post is a follow-up to a reflection on how going to rationality camp made...

August 11, 2012

The gift my weirdo debate friends gave me

Tonight is the summer alumni debate of my philosophical debating group, and I’ve had an...

August 08, 2012

Finding the right amount of unpleasantness

There's some very helpful feedback on the recent commenting/housekeeping/debate tactics post. I'm going to highlight...

August 08, 2012

Clawing out of the Cesspool

Thanks all for the mostly good behavior on the two preceding posts on queer issues....

August 07, 2012

What would someone have to say to you to get you to break up your family?

For your own good at that. This isn't a hypothetical question. There are plenty of...

August 02, 2012

I’m only writing once on Chik-fil-a

Seriously, I thought it was pronounced Chick-fil-uh. That's not the main reason I haven't posted...

July 2012

July 22, 2012

Conceding a Point is Not a Slippery Slope

I'm having a delightful time at Rationality Camp, and I have two LessWrong posts to...