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Islamophobia and the Egyptian Massacres 18 Aug 2013 | 10:56 pm
For the record, my silence on #Egypt is not because I'm cool with Muslims being slaughtered by military governments. How about you? — Ian Murphy (@Ian_Murphy) August 16, 2013 Last week, sit-ins acro...
Tony Lakey reflects on the CFI Conference for Columbia FAVS 15 Aug 2013 | 11:49 pm
Photo credit to Monica Harmsen Tony Lakey, former president of the University of Missouri Skeptics, Atheists, Secular Humanists, and Agnostics (MU SASHA), has a post up at Columbia Faith and Values (...
The Vanguard Fallacy and the Embattled Purview 14 Aug 2013 | 10:41 pm
I really enjoy having friends who are in the academic study of religion because you can learn so much and question a lot of the assumptions that often seem taken for granted. Today, we have a guest po...
The Burka Avenger, Superheroes, and Social Responsibility 14 Aug 2013 | 02:22 am
Like many American boys, I was raised on superheroes. I knew about Batman, Spiderman, and the X-Men before I knew how to walk. Their god-like status captivated me for years—here were people sculpted a...
How Conferences Kill Critical Thought 13 Aug 2013 | 02:48 am
In the last few days, voices upon voices have emerged raising accusations that some leaders in the atheist movement are perpetrators of sexual violence. These assaults aren’t the product of just a...
More Than Just Human-ism 12 Aug 2013 | 07:51 am
“Intersectionality” is social justice vocab that essentially refers to how all modes of oppression, how all types of injustice that we generally think of as distinct, share principles and share strife...
Atheism is maturing, will Dawkins? 9 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 8, 2013 Right on cue, as...
So I’m probably not quitting atheism 8 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
Photo credit to Monica Harmsen Followers of my Twitter feed may have noticed, through interpreting some occasionally abstract tweets, that I was at the Center for Inquiry’s Student Leadership Conf...
Accommodationism, Sean Carroll, and the scope of science and skepticism 5 Jul 2013 | 10:03 pm
I’ve written before that I don’t like the term “accommodationist,” but, putting unflattering connotations aside, most usages seem to apply to me. I think that, compelling state interests not withstand...
Faith Line Protestants Relaunch! 2 Jul 2013 | 09:17 am
The interfaith movement seeks to encompass people of all spiritual paths: indeed, atheists, but those too whose faith is rooted in conversion. Faith Line Protestants is an online journal of evangelica...