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Author Archives: Wendy Webber

The Problem with “With Us or Against Us” Rhetoric

July 13, 2015by Wendy Webber 2 Comments

I’m sure I’m not the only one who has observed the phenomena of all or nothing approaches to discourse. To put it another way, if we disagree in just one […]

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Politics & Culture

Grappling with Comfort & Death as a Humanist

April 23, 2015by Wendy Webber 1 Comment

Recently, I heard a story about a man who is in prison and has been denied a request to have doctors help him end his life. (This is in Belgium […]

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Religion & Secularism

An Atheist Explores Evangelical Christianity in Its Own Words: Interview w CRU Leader Matt Baehr

February 17, 2015by Wendy Webber 8 Comments

As far as I can tell, a fundamental tenant of Humanism is an agreement on the inherent equality of all people. For me, this means a responsibility to realize that […]

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Religion & Secularism

Getting Youth to Take Action: Interview w/ Frank Fredericks, Founder of World Faith

January 2, 2015by Wendy Webber 1 Comment

Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith whose mission is to build a globally movement of religiously-diverse youth to counter religious violence and end global poverty. World Faith is […]

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Religion & Secularism

Santa Muerte: Remembering Saints Are People Too

December 1, 2014by Wendy Webber Leave a comment

Though I’m not religious, I have a bit of an obsession with saints. I’m talking the Catholic ones. I love their individual stories. I love their collective history. I love […]

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Religion & Secularism

‘Minority Experience’ is Common Ground in Interbelief Dialogue

October 31, 2014by Wendy Webber 1 Comment

Beliefs are a difficult subject for people to bond over if they are coming from different belief systems. Where to begin? Never start with the divinity of Christ. Polytheism? Whether […]

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Religion & Secularism

Humans Are Weird, & Other Lessons From Animal Behavior: Interview w Dr. Laurie Santos

September 30, 2014by Wendy Webber 1 Comment

Two weeks ago was the Yale Humanist Community’s first ever Humanist Haven, a monthly nonreligious community gathering. The first speaker at the first meeting was Dr. Laurie Santos, a professor […]

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Religion & Secularism, Science & Nature

Survival Achieved–Now What?

September 5, 2014by Wendy Webber 3 Comments

Humans, as a species, no longer struggle to survive. We survive. Arguably too well. We inhabit almost every corner of the globe and have figured out how to survive in […]

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Politics & Culture

Why I Love Being Uncertain

August 5, 2014by Wendy Webber 3 Comments

We, humans, seem to be afraid of uncertainty. Or to put it another way, we yearn for complete certainty. But why? Oddly, science and religion, using their broadest notions, have […]

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Religion & Secularism

Questioning the Standard Life Cycle of an Atheist

July 1, 2014by Wendy Webber 6 Comments

I’ve been an atheist all my life, but I didn’t notice until I was in high school. I didn’t notice because it never felt like a big deal. I didn’t […]

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