Why Scientists Should Be Agnostic: Or, Why Lawrence Krauss Is Still a Windbag
A few months ago, one of us (okay, Andrew), referred to the esteemed physicist and…
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Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit
On the eve of the papal visit, William Penn’s City of brotherly love, Philadelphia, is…
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Can You Become Un-Autistic?
You could read this as a straightforward narrative of medical recovery. Or you could read…
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Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course
Could a course prevent public schools from becoming battlefields?
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What Kim Davis Knows (Or Thinks She Knows) About Marriage, the State, and Sexuality
This morning a judge freed Kim Davis, the heretofore obscure Kentucky county clerk who has made national…
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Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette
The Pew Research Center has pubished a new report on cellphone etiquette. If you’ve ever wondered whether…
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A Nazi, a Jewish Prisoner, and a “Magic” Bible, Or, Christian Romance Fiction Gone Very, Very Wrong
Is there a prize for most offensive conversion narrative?
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Why SBC’s Russell Moore Wants Conservative Evangelicals to Be Nicer
In the 1970s, conservative evangelicals declared themselves defenders of the American way and protectors of…
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Why Science Needs “Neurodiversity,” Autism Included
New York Times science columnist George Johnson had the epistemological grumps last week, about what…
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“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace
In “Federer, Both Flesh and Not,” his essay about the 2006 Wimbledon Men’s final, David…
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