Author: Adam Lee

[I’m taking a break from the blog to bond with and care for my new son. Please enjoy this classic post! I’ll check in periodically to answer comments.] Recently, the Catholic writer and apologist Mark Shea fielded a question from a reader who was disturbed by pro-slavery Bible verses quoted on an atheist billboard in…

[I’m taking a break from the blog to bond with and care for my new son. Please enjoy this classic post! I’ll check in periodically to answer comments.] If you’ve followed my writing these past few years, you know that I’ve often taken up arms against prominent atheists who’ve made clueless, sexist comments or worse.…

In which I welcome a new member of the family.

The conclusion of this process was decided in advance.

Our bodies and minds are made of atoms like everything else.

• Michele Bachmann says Christian conservatives will never win another election if Hillary Clinton wins this one. From her mouth to God’s ears! • On Radiolab this week, “The Girl Who Doesn’t Exist“: Alecia Faith Pennington escaped a conservative-Christian/sovereign-citizen homeschool cult, but her parents deliberately never got her a birth certificate, a Social Security number,…

This could be a suitable outpost for humanity into the unimaginably far future.

Religious uniformity is inherently fragile.

They’re going through all the five stages of grief.

In my last installment of this series, I said that I wanted to read more sci-fi and fantasy written by women. That plan is already paying dividends, as I’ve checked off two books by authors on the list I hadn’t read before and thoroughly enjoyed both of them: Uprooted, by Naomi Novik, and The Speed…