Claire Creffield, an atheist who finds that, sometimes, “invoking the concept of God seems a very compelling...
Religion
Eban Alexander has journeyed to heaven and returned to tell the tale. In addition to writing an...
Decades after the sexual revolution, many religious conservatives remain fiercely committed to preaching, if not always living,...
I have previously written about the water tower cross in Whiteville, Tennessee three times: here, here, and here. The...
While I was away traversing the mighty jungles of mid-town Manhattan, I had the chance to see...
I do love A Bit of Fry & Laurie. This is quite a brilliant sketch, whatever you make...
I’ve had this sort of nebulous notion that culture itself is a problem. Not any particular culture,...
~by M.A. Conor P. Williams, in Conservatism Isn’t Radical—It’s “Modular”, argues that there is a certain amount of...
A certain kind of religious activist takes it as a given, and as an imperative, that the...
We were arguing about art at work in the lab the other day. Not the aesthetic value...
I keep trying to better understand James Poulos. I like James a great deal, though we disagree pretty...
There’s been a long and somewhat intense discussion going on in the comments over at Kyle’s sub-blog...
“Who do you think made the first stone spear? That wasn’t the yakkity yaks sitting around the...
When I published my fantasy piece in the Atlantic it was linked (reproduced?) by Richard Dawkins’ site...
Balloon Juice defines “going Galt” as: Withdrawing one’s unique brilliance from the economy in protest of tax...
~by Tom Van Dyke Well, the problem isn’t perhaps-GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry attending a semi-political prayer...
~by RTod On Wednesday Erik posted a picture of two (presumably) married costumed lesbians, kissing while holding...
By Kyle Cupp I was born to a Buddhist father and a somewhat lapsed Catholic mother, so...
The last time I checked, most Muslims in the United States were not blowing themselves up in...
~ by Sean Byrnes As I imagine is the case in many religious services, the biblical readings...
