What’s Wrong With Atheist Lent?
A few years ago, I gave up eggs and dairy for Lent. This wouldn’t have…
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The Bindi Isn’t Indie
Et tu, Beyoncé? #ReclaimtheBindi wants to challenge cultural appropriation of traditional symbols.
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Praise the Lard This Holiday Season
In the spirit of the annual evangelical Christian push to “Keep the Christ in Christmas,”…
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Festivus, Atheist Santa, and the Invention of Blasphemy
A Q&A with S. Brent Plate
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What Did the Puritans Have Against Christmas?
Another Christmas, another string of outrages about the supposed “War on Christmas.” In November there…
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Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’
In the 1640s, during the years of the English civil wars, a popular broadsheet with…
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How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship
Or, why we’re glad American culture settled on “Thanksgiving” over “Fasting and Humiliation.”
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This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.
Will they have gluten-free treats? Is white chocolate structurally racist? Are brown M&M’s offensive? Isn’t…
Read MoreWherein An Elected Official Gets His Holiday Miracles Mixed Up
Here’s a heartwarming holiday story from Springfield, Massachusetts, where city councilor Bud Williams said at a…
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Trick or….Bible: Christians Coping with Halloween
“Halloween gives you a great opportunity to show how Christians celebrate the day that death was defeated, and you can give them Gospel tracts…”
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