Mocking Versus Understanding Religion
Today a friend* posted this on Facebook: I’m here at the Detroit airport waiting for my flight back to New Jersey. There’s a Jewish fellow here who was just doing his morning prayers, complete with the...
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Secular Solstice and the Importance of Ritual
I wanted to write a little bit about secular ritual and tradition and why it’s important. To me, that is. It’s important to me. It’s not important to a lot of other people, some of whom politely shrug...
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[guest post] A Purpose-Driven Life – Is God Required?
My friend Gleb Tsipursky wrote this guest post about a secular approach to finding a sense of purpose in life. We need God for a sense of purpose in life, at least according to the vast majority of...
View ArticleWhat Stops Atheists from Violence?
This was originally supposed to be a Daily Dot piece (hence the un-blog-like format), but that didn’t work out. So instead, here’s a post in which I interviewed a bunch of cool atheists about how it is...
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Secular Students Week Interview!
Hey folks! As you may know, I was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Secular Student Alliance. I’ve been involved with the SSA for almost three years; it was the first secular conference...
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Secular Students Week Guest Post: Tim Kolanko
Continuing Secular Students Week, I’ve got a guest post from Tim Kolanko, a student activist who was able to use the SSA’s support to bring a speaker to raise awareness of intersex issues and medical...
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Secular Students Week Guest Post: Benjamin Karpf
Here’s my last Secular Students Week post! Student activist Benjamin Karpf talks about the importance of building community for secular people–something that we sometimes overlook in favor of the...
View Article“You’re in my prayers.”
[Content note: mentions of grief, loss, illness] I follow The Best of Tumblr on Facebook for the cat photos and pop culture jokes, but recently I saw this: Posted by The Best of Tumblr on Monday,...
View ArticleHow Christian Privilege Shows Up During the Holiday Season
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, Happy Chinese Food Day to those who don’t! I’ve got a piece up at Everyday Feminism about how this time of year makes Christian privilege easier to spot and...
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