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I: mother, daughter, thinker, healer, writer, fighter, wife. I. I–not some mindless life–am woman!

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Abortion kills 25 million women a year, he wrote. Women. In the storm of controversy surrounding the (pink ribbon, race for the cure) Komen Foundation’s decision to defund breast care at Planned Parenthood–and their subsequent reversal–people I call pro-birth are … Continue reading

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What is a Person?

This week the citizens of Mississippi will vote whether to legally assign the status of “personhood” to any human egg that has been penetrated by a sperm. I, for one, think that being a person is a serious gift. And … Continue reading

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Sacred—Moral–Evil: Should Freethinkers Shun or Claim the Language of Spirituality?

On reading an early draft of Trusting Doubt, which looks at my old Evangelical beliefs from my current vantage as a nontheist, one reviewer commented, “This is a very spiritual book.”  What?!  I thought.  A part of me protested:  I … Continue reading

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Soldier, Dad, Whistleblower: Atheist in a Foxhole Takes on Evangelistic Military Hierarchy

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Justin Griffith is a twenty-eight year old active duty soldier, a sergeant at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He is also a new dad. Griffith likes what he does. He describes the military as a place that has structure, discipline, … Continue reading

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Is Praying Before Football Games Cheating?

How many times have you seen football players – on the screen or just off the field—huddling for prayer before a game?  You know what they’re asking for, right?  They’re asking God to tweak the rules of biology and physics … Continue reading

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