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Love Labyrinths
A Skeptic Reads the Newspaper with Ben Radford
May 22, 2013
A friend of mine is getting married next weekend and she wants to have the ceremony in a labyrinth. She asked me to write a short piece about a love labyrinth...
Francis and the Accidental Exorcism
The Morning Heresy with Paul Fidalgo
May 22, 2013
The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
The anti-blasphemy machine rolls on: Turkish writer Sevan Nişanyan is sentenced to 58 weeks in prison for “insulting the religious beliefs held by a section of the society.”
GOP Lt. Governor nominee E.W. Jackson of Virginia (Democrats are a "coalition of the godless") says that anyone who criticizes his hard-right positions "is attacking every church-going person, every family that’s living a traditional family life, everybody who believes that we all deserve the right to live." Chaser:
I would just say people should not paint me as one-dimensional.
You're making that hard, dude.
“Renoir”: A Nickell-odeon Review
Investigative Briefs with Joe Nickell
May 21, 2013
[Pierre] Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was, with Claude Monet and other French painters in the 1860s, a founder of Impressionism, a movement allied with artistic Naturalism. Its adherents sought to paint real life directly from nature—among their goals being to capture light’s changing effects. Why do we care? Because appreciation of art is part of what makes us truly human. As philosopher Paul Kurtz stated, speaking of secular humanist values, “We are engaged by the arts no less than the sciences.”
The Wise Old Goat in a Flock of Sheep
The Morning Heresy with Paul Fidalgo
May 21, 2013
The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
Obviously, most Americans' hearts and minds are concentrated on the victims of the tornadoes in Oklahoma and across the Midwest. We'll have a formal statement soon, and in the mean time please consider donating to help those affected.
Wowie-wow-wow-WOW. The already-loathsome Daily Caller outdoes itself by harrassing and insulting one of our own. Read about the saga of SCA's Lauren Anderson Youngblood and the "Dick pic" email from Christopher Bedford. You rock on, Lauren. <communications directors' secret high-five-handshake>
Ryan Koronowski dismantles the gee-that's-really-wrong WaPo op-ed on climate change by House science chair Lamar Smith.
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