Santa Muerte: Remembering Saints Are People Too
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 […]
Tag Archives: religion
Of Hidden Gods: Sometimes Absence of Evidence IS Evidence of Absence
I love this popular little mantra: the absence of evidence isn’t the evidence of absence, also known as the fallacy of the argument from ignorance. If you’re not already familiar with […]
Reason vs Religion at Rutgers: Julien Musolino Debates Mark Baker
I don’t go to public debates nearly as much as I should. This is just one of the many things I learned from attending the The Veritas Forum last night, […]
A Defense of Social Labels
Are you a Democrat or Republican? A Christian, or maybe Muslim? An Atheist? What’s your stance on abortion: Pro-Life or Pro-Choice? What’s your ethnicity? Labels for political parties, religions, races, […]
Finding the Sacred in Service to Others
Being an interfaith chaplain, I attend many events that are focused on multireligious education and dialogue, and lead several such events with my own students. A very popular activity for these […]
Embracing Identities: Stories of Coming Out Queer & Faithless — Call for Participants
Storytelling is a powerful tool for social change and building community. The Embracing Identities Project is searching for personal stories of coming out as LGBTQ and atheist in a variety of […]
The Soul Fallacy: An Interview w Psychology Prof Julien Musolino
It’s not everyday you get to meet someone like Rutgers professor Julien Musolino. In our age of specialization, Julien is part of a small (but growing!) cadre of thinkers whose […]
Is Humanism a Religion?
Like other difficult questions, there are no clear answers to the old debate of whether or not Humanism is a religion. Here the crux of the problem seems to stem […]
Why I Love Being Uncertain
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 […]
Power in Diversity: Storytelling as a Social Catalyst
Our lives are shaped by stories – even the most frivolous and whimsical are essential in the construction of our subjective and shared realities. Stories convey information we have learned; […]
Applied Sentience 