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January 2013

January 30, 2013

What should we be hurt by?

Poking around the internet, I ran across two interesting articles that seemed to be linked...

January 09, 2013

But Aren’t Saints Dreadfully Dull?

Tonight I'm seeing Les Miserables for the third time (there have been various outings as people...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

What Freedom from Moral Sensibilities Feels Like

Writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Dutton underwent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to...

October 10, 2012

A Disquisition on the Nature of Love, or, Contra Ron/Hermione

See, this is exactly why I love culture-wide book clubs. I mention Harry Potter in...

August 2012

August 21, 2012

Who are you dressed up as today?

Since we've been talking about theatre, (and had a guest post from an actress) I...

August 06, 2012

On Value-Neutral Bravery

Back before I went off to awesome, wacky summer camp (a few more things to come...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

Brave Enough to Kill

The Pentagon is considering awarding Distinguished Warfare Medals to drone pilots and Glen Greenwald is...

July 12, 2012

Morality isn’t only hard on special occasions

In the discussion of St. Thomas More's martydom, and how it helps me understand moral...

July 11, 2012

A Martyr for All Seasons

Two weeks ago, I had an absolutely lovely time reading A Man for All Seasons...

May 2012

May 18, 2012

Remember that chat we had about Nazi analogies?

The post was "It’s hard for me to hear you over the sound of your...

May 15, 2012

When Moral Hazard is the Safest Course

Patheos blogger Thomas McDonald of God and the Machine is horrified by the FDA's recommendation...

May 02, 2012

Winning a Moral Arms Race?

The first person to comment on my post about The Hunger Games and not seeing...

April 2012

April 21, 2012

“What’s Hard is Simple, What’s Natural Comes Hard”

This post is part of Patheos's book club for T.M. Luhrmann's When God Talks Back:...

April 12, 2012

Morality in Multiple Dimensions

In college, I got into a lot of debates about moral relativism, cultural imperialism, and epistemological modesty. When we...

March 2012

March 14, 2012

Won’t Someone Think of the Children?

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

February 2012

February 24, 2012

No ‘Healthy Outlet’ for Bad Habits

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I'm one of...

November 2011

November 15, 2011

Assenting to Sin

If someone has made up their mind to do something evil, is there any benefit...

October 2011

October 20, 2011

High Octane Ritual

Yesterday I made a case for authority among atheists and today I’m addressing ritual without...

August 2011

August 23, 2011

High Energy Theoretical Ethics

Joel Marks has written an essay for The New York Times Opinionator page titled "Confessions...

June 2011

June 19, 2011

Update on Church Vandalism Fundraising

Hermant Mehta of Friendly Atheist has ended his atheist fundraiser to help two churches that...

June 04, 2011

Call him Voldemort!

"Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name...

May 2011

May 17, 2011

No Victimless Sins?

When I wrote about my dilemma on how to deal with an Orthodox Jewish girl trying...

October 2010

October 09, 2010

Dirty Hands and Drone Strikes

This post is one in a series on sin and immortality. You can read the...

July 2010

July 12, 2010

“Here I Am, Dressing up as Christ”

C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity was the first apologetic work I read, and two elements...