Yesterday, I wrote very briefly about a prayer group appropriating personal tragedy for pious purposes. Today I’d like to consider…
There is no tragedy, however terrible, however personal, however awful to contemplate, that cannot be exploited by cynical opportunists for…
[This post an open letter to Nicole McCullough and Julia Cordray, co-founders of Peeple. If you are not them, and…
I can clearly recall the first time someone introduced me to the idea of a hymen. I was in middle…
Today is the sixth annual International Blasphemy Rights Day and (not coincidentally) the tenth anniversary of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons…
In a startling example of Poe’s Law, the folks at Westboro Baptist Church have come out strongly against the weather.…
When it comes to the 2016 Presidential election in the U.S., the Republicans are suffering from what I can only call an…
With my fellow Americans (and a surprising number of my fellow liberals) going gaga over the Papal visit this week,…
A telling exchange from yesterday’s edition of Meet the Press: Chuck Todd: “Should a President’s faith matter?” Ben Carson: “Well,…
I’ve not given much thought to Atheism Plus in quite awhile, except to check their block list every now and again…