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A Barbarous Incapacity
January 9, 2024You’d think that being a magazine editor, I’d read a lot more than I actually get around to. I love reading, but I suspect I am not alone in feeling like somehow the time available—and the attention required—for deep reading has somehow evaporated over the last few years. I know; excuses, excuses. >>Sign up now …
No One Pushing Quarks Around: Souls and Quantum Field Theory
January 4, 2024I frequently engage in religious discussions and debates on social media, and I am happy to see more and more freethinkers participating. The arguments are well fleshed out and generally focus on faith versus evidence, evolution, cosmology, the Bible, a little history, and of course, the burden of proof. Religious believers often insist that nonbelievers …
The Medicine of Extinction
December 22, 2023Wild animals are being squeezed out of their habitats all over the world because of human overpopulation. We reached eight billion people on our limited planet last year, and we continue to add over eighty million each year. Countries with relative abundance continue to attract those seeking prosperity and refuge from their beleaguered countries of …
An Epitaph for Humanity
December 21, 2023We were the people of planet Earth. Homo sapiens was the scientific name we selected for ourselves, meaning “wise humans.” Now that we’re extinct, it seems we weren’t so wise after all. As the most advanced ape to evolve, we developed educational facilities, sophisticated technologies, and vibrant cultures. However, we never moved beyond our divisiveness to fully advance …
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Have Christians Accepted the Scientific Conclusion That God Does Not Answer Intercessory Prayer?
Volume 39, No. 1December 2018 / January 2019
In 1982, a young cardiologist at the San Francisco General Medical Center named Randolph Byrd had a brilliant insight that would motivate several important investigations of prayer during the following two decades. He realized that the standard research paradigm known as the double-blind randomized clinical trial could be used to test the efficacy of intercessory …
Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice
Volume 36, No. 5August / September 2016
Why be pro-abortion? Because of all the genuine, unquestioned goods it makes possible.
The Importance of Being Blasphemous
Volume 35, No. 6October / November 2015
Looking back on the Satanic Verses affair from the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it is clear that Western culture has hemorrhaged away its courage.
Popular Articles
Have Christians Accepted the Scientific Conclusion That God Does Not Answer Intercessory Prayer?
Volume 39, No. 1December 2018 / January 2019
In 1982, a young cardiologist at the San Francisco General Medical Center named Randolph Byrd had a brilliant insight that would motivate several important investigations of prayer during the following two decades. He realized that the standard research paradigm known as the double-blind randomized clinical trial could be used to test the efficacy of intercessory …
Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice
Volume 36, No. 5August / September 2016
Why be pro-abortion? Because of all the genuine, unquestioned goods it makes possible.
Looking Back
Women’s History: A Core Secular Issue
Volume 34, No. 1December 2013 / January 2014
It isn’t surprising that the secular movement in America has been characterized by historical discontinuities that, in a number of respects, resemble the amnesia that held back feminism for so long.
Feminism, Religion, and ‘Mattering’
Volume 34, No. 1December 2013 / January 2014
My engagement in both the tough world of professional philosophy and the even-tougher world of literary fiction has afforded me an ideal vantage point for viewing the many subtle ways in which gender biases undermine women.
Sexism and Religion: Can the Knot Be Untied?
Volume 34, No. 1December 2013 / January 2014
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices?
Women’s History: A Core Secular Issue
Volume 34, No. 1December 2013 / January 2014
It isn’t surprising that the secular movement in America has been characterized by historical discontinuities that, in a number of respects, resemble the amnesia that held back feminism for so long.
Feminism, Religion, and ‘Mattering’
Volume 34, No. 1December 2013 / January 2014
My engagement in both the tough world of professional philosophy and the even-tougher world of literary fiction has afforded me an ideal vantage point for viewing the many subtle ways in which gender biases undermine women.