FFRF sues Trump administration over taxpayer funding of religious America 250 events.
Canada’s religious revival that never came to be. The study shows that cultural religious identity can persist long after active religious participation declines.
Does secularization represent increasing rationality, or can it simply involve replacing organized religious beliefs with personalized supernatural ones? A secular society must defend the freedom of people to reject religion while equally defending believers against violence and discrimination.
Restrictions on government endorsement of religion are not restrictions on individual religious expression. Is religious liberty the freedom to practice your religion, or the power to make other people live according to it?
World of Woo: Feng Shui.
Environment: Some climate tipping points are being studied far more than others.
Florida’s new science standards downplay evolution and climate change.
“What a terrible thing to do. What a horribly unethical and cruel thing to do.”
At least only about one in four Americans trusts health information from Kennedy.
This story about Catholics, Demons and UFO’s is deliciously absurd.
Did Magic Mushrooms make us religious? You are not in Huxley’s hallway; you are in your own house.
The moral bankruptcy of livestreaming an execution.
Philosophical contemplation can be worthwhile even when its ambitions remain unfulfilled but can philosophy become more scientific without confusing logical certainty with empirical truth? (following up on last week’s conversation). (See also second video).
Eventually, some of the apes started asking why there was a universe at all. Not because the universe needed an explanation, but because some of its inhabitants became capable of wanting one.
Sunday Book Club: Between Fixed and Fickle: Why our Moral Views keep changing.
Some photographs taken last week. Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
While you are waiting for the kettle to boil.
Coffee Break Videos: Bad Faith 2026: Christian Nationalism in Power. AI will end Philosophy? The illiteracy crisis has a religion problem. “AI could lead to the collective dementia of humankind,“ says Yuval Noah Harari. NAZA: Exposing the ugly truth.
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