Rippling Brainwaves

Not long ago I saw a YouTube video about the drop in U.S. evangelical Christian church attendance. It suggested that one cause is that young...

It's often illuminating to actually read  the classic books that have become famous cultural references...even clichés. Strange Case of ...

Here's a quick way to express the change in perspective that helped dislodge me from my former faith-based beliefs (which were in the US...

The book I'm responding to is Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon, an author in my...

I've published a lot of entries here about the seismic shift in thinking I went through when I journeyed out of supernatural beliefs. Th...

The tv show Lost evoked a wide range of reactions. One of these was the common complain that the show's writing was perceived as excess...

It's an excellent idea to step back from time to time and approach a belief as a total  outsider  would. Otherwise, there's a strong...

Sometimes the urge rises to simply call something what it really is. Mystery is a con . Arguably the more impressive trick isn't to conv...

It's too easy to accuse the other side of being mindless. I can say that back when I was also someone whose life and thoughts revolved a...

Discussion about the love of some particular religion's god—or the absence of such—generally centers on the problems of evil and sufferi...