May 06 2013
If the atheist and skeptical movements focus on political and social justice issues, will that constitute mission drift? No. Okay. I realize that’s not a very satisfying answer. How about this: Nothing that anyone I know is advocating in this department constitutes mission drift. Sure, there are some ways this could hypothetically happen, if that …
Apr 29 2013
This was originally published in Free Inquiry magazine. In the skeptic and atheist communities, we often wring our hands over how much infighting we do. Every time another firestorm of controversy eats the Internet, many of us become alarmed at the rifts dividing our community: weakening us, burning us out, making it harder for us …
Apr 24 2013
So I’ve started a secular meditation practice. As you probably guessed from the title of this piece. I’ve been interested in meditation for a long time. It offers, or seems to offer, some things I’m in great need of: peace, calm, the ability to be present in the here and now, the ability to sit …
Apr 16 2013
If there’s a small problem with one part of a generally good rule or law or policy, is it best to modify that part of the rule/ law/ policy… or to scrap the entire thing? Or, indeed, to scrap the entire notion of rules and laws and policies? There’s been some recent conversation about sexual …
Dec 04 2012
In an entertainingly weird form of meta-technology, here is a YouTube video of my Skyped-in talk at Skepticon 5. I had to cancel my scheduled talk at Skepticon 5, which was sad and frustrating and drove me up a fucking tree. In fact, when I was talking with my oncologist about scheduling my hysterectomy, for …
Nov 04 2012
Do you want to help me out? Help Skepticon. They’ve hit a major last-minute roadblock, and they need our help — now. Skepticon is one of the most incredible and inspiring events in the atheist/ skeptical calendar. Organized at a grass-roots level by a student organization, it has become one of the largest and most …
Aug 21 2012
I’m going to lay this out there: I think Atheism Plus is good. And I don’t just mean “good” in the sense of “morally right.” I mean “good” as in “good for the health and future of atheism.” As most readers here know, Jen McCreight recently proposed a new wave of atheism — an “atheist …
Jul 24 2012
If we want the atheist/ skeptical communities to be more inclusive and more welcoming to people of color — what, specifically, can we do about it? IMPORTANT NOTE: This post has a different comment policy than my standard one. It’s at the end of the post. Please read it and respect it. Thanks. At the …
Jul 13 2012
Do codes of conduct at conferences have a chilling effect on ordinary social interaction? In the discussions about sexual harassment and codes of conduct at atheist and skeptical conferences, there’s been a tendency for the conversations to wander off into a micro-analysis of whether people would have to get explicit verbal consent for handshakes and …
Jul 04 2012
I’ve decided that one weekday a week, I need to devote my time on working on my next books, and not write a whole new blog post. So for that day, I’m going to point to other blog posts that other people have written, comment on them briefly, and open them up for discussion. A …
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