As much as it pains me to admit it, I’m getting older. The 9-mile hike I did the day before to the summit of Snezka left me tired and sore….
Category: religion
I’m not religious, but I write about it occasionally… Okay, way more than occasionally.
Questions to Ask Missionaries and Evangelists
I was hurriedly walking to a meeting across my campus about a week ago when a young man stopped me and asked, “Do you mind if I ask you a…
Examples of Religious Syncretism
I’m always on the lookout for good examples of religious syncretism and wanted a good place to store these. Lôtān -> Leviathan In Psalm 74, verse 14, Yahweh is described…
Greece Trip – Metochi
Thanks to my work on nonreligion and atheism, I was invited to participate in a week-long colloquium (May 13th through May 20th) in Greece by LeRon Shults in which I would…
Disingenuous Christian Proselytizing
I get a lot of emails. I try to answer all of my emails but am increasingly realizing that some of it may not be worthy of a response. For…
How to Analyze Mormons in the GSS
The General Social Survey (GSS) is a long-running, mostly cross-sectional survey of the non-institutionalized adult population in the US (since 1972). Since the beginning, the GSS has asked people about…
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant
On December 17th, Debi and I (along with two friends) went to the American Stage Theatre Company’s presentation of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant. As someone who studies…
cat problem and innate morality
Our neighbors to the east of us recently moved out (they were renting). In the last couple of months before they moved out, we think they adopted a young cat….
nice story about my brother Mark
I was chatting with my Mom over IM the other day when she told me a story about my brother Mark (well, sort of). A little background is required. After…
On TV again – as an expert on “heaven”
I received an email from the director of PR at my university last week looking for an expert on religion to comment on a news story the local Fox affiliate…