My belief in a higher power has morphed into a belief in people. Last year I wrote a piece on my agnosticism, an element of identity that “others” me in relation to the dominant Christian culture I was raised in. The piece gave me an opportunity to explore all the little twists and turns in […]
I’m not using religion to guide my son’s morals. He is not being raised to believe that God is keeping track of his behavior, nor are we relying on the promise or threat of heaven and hell, respectively, to keep him in line. Neuroscientist David Eagleman says this about religion: Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast […]
For those of us who don’t fit into religious boxes, there’s nothing wrong with taking away what remains of Christmas when you remove its Christian roots. The Saturday after Thanksgiving each year, my 6-year-old son and I always share a similar look of manic glee at what is about to unfold: the annual unpacking of the (fake) Christmas […]
