As a follow-up to yesterday’s discussion, here’s Frans deWaal’s plenary talk from the 2010 American Academy of Religion conference in Atlanta. […]
morality, philosophy, psychology, religion
Aping morality
Whenever I’ve been involved in a discussion of the evolution of morality, the English language trips things up a bit. […]
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Update on “contempt of cop” cases
People sometimes find my blog by searching for some variation on “Is it okay to be rude to a cop?” […]
LGBT, rape
I must have missed that part of PCU…
Yesterday in my hometown, a man received seventeen life sentences for the repeated rape of two minor girls, some of […]
feminism, philosophy, psychology, rape
Secret Agent Woman
Jennifer Shewmaker, a psychology professor at Abilene Christian University, has a blog post blaming the Steubenville rape case in part on […]
Church and state, freedom of speech, politics
“Governor brings religion into the public sphere”
KS governor Sam Brownback. Photo credit: Brent Wistrom, The Wichita Eagle Fearing terms is odd. But in terms of terms […]
freedom of speech, Westboro Baptist Church
Freezepeaching the WBC
Stephanie Zvan at Almost Diamonds came up with an excellent t-shirt idea: an image of a peach, half-frozen in a […]
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Business model
I have an idea for a business. It’s a delivery service. It delivers to hospital patients. Not flowers. Not Mylar balloons. Not […]
LGBT
Marching, not racing
Item #3, “Make you like us,” conspicuously absent. So the Supreme Court has some consideration of gay marriage coming up, […]
psychology
Terror Management Theory
Terror management theory sounds like a government doctrine on how to combat suicide bombers. It is actually, however, the name […]