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April 2015

April 13, 2015

2015 Ideological Turing Test [Index Post]

A conventional Turing Test checks whether a computer program can convincingly counterfeit human conversation. An Ideological...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

Nice Guys and Casual Dates [Sequence Index]

In the Fall, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of... friendzoning? In September...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Sondheim Symposium on Friendship [Sequence Index]

In the summer of 2014, I reprised my successful Sondheim Symposium birthday party of two...

January 2014

January 06, 2014

Reading through 2014 with Pope Francis [Index Post]

Throughout 2014, I'll be reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s collections of meditations: Open Mind, Faithful...

June 2013

June 15, 2013

My Week at Rationalist Summer Camp [Sequence Index]

After spending a week at geek summer camp (not that one!) in July 2012, I...

January 2013

January 15, 2013

Cultivating Curiosity [Index]

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

December 2012

December 29, 2012

The Inspector Javert Medley [Sequence Index]

I may not have drawn little hearts in my middle school notebooks labelled "Leah +...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Singing my way to the Sacraments [Index]

In the run-up to my reception into the Catholic Church, I tried to talk a...

November 08, 2012

Reading Dennett’s Breaking the Spell [Index Post]

In November 2012, I read and blogged through Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell: Religion as...

October 2012

October 15, 2012

To take up arms against a sea of sexists

In July of 2011, an unpleasant incident at an atheism conference prompted a much needed...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Sondheim Symposium [Sequence Index]

In the summer of 2012, I threw the best birthday party ever when I bribed...

August 10, 2012

Offering Loving Resistance [Sequence Index]

In July 2012, Patheos sent me a copy of Logan Mehl-Laituri's memoir Reborn on the...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

2012 Ideological Turing Test [Index Post]

In the summer of 2012, I repeated my spin on Bryan Caplan's Ideological Turing Test....

June 12, 2012

2012 Queer Blogathon [Index Post]

In June of 2012, I took one leg of the Secular Student Alliance Blogathon, promising...

April 2012

April 09, 2012

Granny Weatherwax and Discworld [Index Post]

When I first started this blog, I was casting about for a few types of...

April 08, 2012

Reason Rally/American Atheists Conference [Index Post]

The weekend of March 24th 2012, a disputed number of thousands of people gathered in...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Debate with Justin Martyr [Index Post]

In June of 2010, I had a debate with Justin Martyr of the now defunct...

March 26, 2012

Daylight Atheism Guestblogging [Index Post]

In May of 2011, I did a stint guestblogging at Daylight Atheism, while Adam Lee...

February 2012

February 07, 2012

Debating Gay Marriage [Index Post]

There's a controversy brewing at my alma mater. As the kickoff to True Love Week (meant...

January 2012

January 15, 2012

Feser’s The Last Superstition [Index Post]

I ran into a Dominican at an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences event...

April 2011

April 09, 2011

Ex-Gays and Debating Mores (Index Post)

On April 1st, 2011, it turned out that the advertised visit from an ex-gay, Protestant...

February 2011

February 12, 2011

Defining Atheism, Defining Sacrilege (Series Index)

Prompted by a post by atheist blogger and agent provocateur P.Z. Myers, I started a...

February 05, 2011

An Attraction to Orthodoxy (Series)

As part of my Sunday's Good Book series, I posted about G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy and...

January 2011

January 20, 2011

Covenant Marriage Index

Some time ago, I got into a dispute about covenant marriage with my friend Stephen,...

January 02, 2011

Identifying Purposefulness [Index]

During the series addressing Michael Egnor's Eight Questions for Atheists, I spent a post...

November 2010

November 17, 2010

Can There be an Atheist Agenda?

After I got into a disagreement about tactics with John Loftus of Debunking Christianity, I...

October 2010

October 26, 2010

Eight Questions for Atheists

The Discovery Institute's Michael Egnor has posted eight questions as a challenge to New Atheists....

October 04, 2010

Sin and Immorality (Index Post)

Previously on this blog I've written about morality, but in a highly abstracted, mathematically-inclined way....

September 2010

September 27, 2010

Why I Don’t Believe (Series Index)

I've used this blog to pick at some parts of religion that I find...

September 11, 2010

A Religion I Like (Series Index)

Telling someone I'm an atheist tells them very little about what I believe or why. ...