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Whenever I post anything about goofy beliefs, urban legends, and superstitions -- like my piece Monday about spells to summon up demons -- i...

As a diversion from less cheerful subjects like what is currently happening in politics in the United States, today we will consider: the Ga...

"Selfies" are all the rage these days. Heaven knows why, because they're usually poorly composed and not in focus.   They also...

I think my problem is that I really don't understand religion. I understand, or at least think I do, religious people .  I have a lot ...

Sometimes I think the fringe-y parts of the Religious Right stay up at night, and while the rest of us are doing something constructive like...

Tomorrow is Easter, the most important celebration of the Christian calendar, a time when believers are reminded about such things as etern...

In Ava Norwood's gripping novel If I Make My Bed in Hell , we read about the ordeal of Annabeth Showers, who has spent her seventeen yea...

"Selfies" are all the rage these days.  Heaven knows why, because they're usually poorly composed and not in focus.  They also...

Yesterday a loyal reader of Skeptophilia , and frequent contributors of topics thereto, sent me a link with the note, "Nothing like exp...