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Drinking Skeptically in Pittsburgh is tonight!
Where: The Bar, 2132 East Carson Street
When: 7:30pm-11ish? Friday, January 15th. [3rd Friday of the month!]
You can RSVP on Facebook or Meetup, and check out the Google map that shows the best places to find parking.

We have a good selection of Christian (protestant-evangelical-charismatic) evangelism tracts here in the office, and I spent a portion of my lunch break perusing them. They are all written by the same author, and they target a wide range of religions–everything from Islam to “unsaved” Catholics to the Bahá’í Faith.
Just one of the tracts is [...]

If you are anything like me, you probably read quite a few science and skeptic blogs.  You might even be on twitter (Follow me here!) and follow all the awesome skeptics out there on the web, working hard to debunk pseudoscience and woo.  While I normally love staying up-to-date on the latest with the skeptic [...]

A recent post on Pharyngula (worth reading) has me thinking about standards of evidence. So many theist/atheist conversations could be truncated if the two parties declared at the outset exactly what is required for them to accept any given claim as “true.” Unspoken assumptions about these standards end up frustrating both sides of the debate.
For [...]

Last week I finally got around to reading Kevin Roose’s excellent book The Unlikely Disciple. If you are at all interested in evangelical subculture, pick up a copy of the book at Borders or Barnes&Noble. In short, Roose is a secular college student from Brown who takes a semester to study at Liberty, America’s “holiest” [...]

For the past few days, I’ve been meaning to write down some thoughts on the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a late-term abortion doctor who was shot in his church last Sunday. The murder was, of course, reprehensible; but I’d like to take a brief look at how pro-life/anti-choice/anti-abortion groups have responded to the news.
Abortion [...]

For the past couple weeks, I’ve been receiving regular e-mail updates on the status of a friend’s friend who had an accident that left her essentially paralyzed. Naturally, it’s a very sad situation, and the doctors are doing everything in their power to minimize or reverse the effects of the accident.
The e-mails I’ve been getting [...]

It was last March that I became an “out” atheist, and the past year has been an interesting one. I’m a sucker for anniversaries, so indulge me in a few observations.
The biggest surprise of my experience as an atheist has been the response of my close Christian friends. I’m not entirely sure what I expected, [...]

I wanted to share this beautiful animation that Parenting Beyond Belief author, Dale McGowan, posted to his blog, as I think it really illustrates some of the discussion that was going on at Friday’s Drinking Skeptically gathering about maintaining positive relationships with family members who are believers.

You can find more by Uk artist, Doug at [...]

Just a reminder that this Saturday, January 11 at 7pm you can meet three lovely Skepchicks Maria, Jen and Elyse – and as a bonus, atheist blogger Ashley will be dancing it up and available to sign your 2009 Skepchick Calendars! Don’t have a calendar? Never fear! You can always buy one [...]