Skeptophilia

When I was young, I had it drilled into me that I was always supposed to do what my mom called "not sinking to their level."  Bull...

This past week I've been watching with frank bafflement as Donald Trump and his cronies try to steer their ship back into the harbor of ...

The Earth lost one of its most brilliant minds last week -- British physicist Stephen Hawking, who expanded our understanding of everything ...

I don't know about you, but I get tired fighting the same battles over and over. I'm all for treating people with respect regardle...

I ran into two stories yesterday that were interesting primarily in juxtaposition. In the first one, we hear that evangelical minister Fra...

I guess it was too much to hope for that the opponents of marriage equality would say, "Oh.  I guess it's the law of the land now, ...

I'm sure that most of you know by now that in a landmark 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal acro...

It's a minor mystery to me why some groups seem to enjoy appearing persecuted. Maybe they think it's some kind of bizarre pseudo-s...

It hasn't been a good week for reasonable, moderate Christians. Which, allow me to point out, the majority of them are.  Even the ones...

One of the (many) things I find mystifying about the very religious is their tendency to think that God agrees with them. Not, mind you, t...