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 [...]

It may be your civic duty, but jury duty sucks and people are always looking for a way out of it.
About six weeks ago I received a summons to go through the jury selection process today. During that time whenever I would mention it to someone they’d suggest a way for me to get out of it. “Tell’em [...]

The ongoing discussion that I’ve been having (largely off the blog) about the recent entries on morality has prompted me to cover one last topic that I only mentioned in passing last time: the Euthyphro dilemma. This should be the last time I talk about morality on the blog for a while, so don’t worry: [...]

I’ve been having a number of interesting conversations recently regarding the post on secular morality, and I’d like to discuss some of the thoughts that have emerged from those exchanges.
One of my entry-level statements when discussing human morality is that no matter where it does come from, we can be fairly certain it’s not from [...]

I was out in Philly this weekend and, through the normal course of catch-up conversation, I was asked a question that is quickly rising to the top of my “inevitable” list: “As an atheist, what keeps you from doing just anything?”
Ah, yes. The moral question is a big one. It’s been addressed many times [...]