A defining characteristic of the human mind is the drive to oversimplify complex problems. We don't do nuance and complexity well. Our media map is saturated with easily digestible narratives of
Although people will be approaching the present war from different angles, looking to load their evaluations with differing amounts of blame for the various players—Putin, NATO, the EU, Ukraine, the West, the
Laws like Roe vs. Wade that many secular people hold dear are under threat. Much of how they are threatened is down to the partisan nature of American politics, but it is also
"God" is arguably a nebulous term and might well mean a different thing to each of the many people who believe in it. In my new book 30 Arguments Against the
As we see burning buildings containing the charred and broken bodies of Ukrainian citizens, as we take in images of muddy fields and boggy tracks doing more to halt Russian hardware than NATO
The free will argument is what got me into this whole thing years ago—it is the argument that lit the fuse to my love affair with philosophy. And, after all these years,
Having recently written a piece drawing on fellow OnlySky writing colleague Phil Zuckerman's brilliant book What It Means To Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life,
Though it's hard to know all of Vladimir Putin's intentions in the invasion of Ukraine, one thing is for sure: he intended to destroy Ukraine's independent identity
This is an often-asked question by Christian believers. Usually, the answer they provide to their own question is a preachy sermon, extolling the wonderfulness of Jesus and the religion that is named after
Beyond exclamations of shock and horror, what we need to be talking about as Russia invades Ukraine this morning is Putin's endgame. Putin claims that he is de-Nazifying Ukraine, and that
Phil Zuckerman, a sociologist of religion and nonreligion and fellow OnlySky columnist, has written a superb book called What It Means To Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical
A lot of people don't really understand the EU, which was always going to make a referendum on the UK's membership, like Brexit, something of a problem. Opposition to