
J. H. McKenna
J. H. McKenna (Ph.D.) has taught the history of atheism and other classes since 1999 at the University of California, where he has won teaching awards. He has published in academic journals and the LA Times, Huffington Post, and Patheos. He created ‘UponReligion.com’ to feature his writing projects and the Youtube channel ‘Five Finger Fingerstyle Guitar’ for his original guitar pieces. His spouse is a professor of Medieval Japanese theater at the University of California.

Goodbye, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Reading Time: < 1 minute OnlySky authors are going on a little holiday as the site…

Reflections on an afterlife destination called hell
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hell is a grave topic. Everyone is going there according to the doctrines of one religion or…

A theology of dying at school
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ponder this. There’s a rule of inference in propositional logic called modus tollens. It says, when a…

It’s past time for Bittul ha-Tamid
Reading Time: 2 minutes There has always been an element of protest in Jewish religiosity. We can picture ancient biblical prophets…

The God of the seismologists
Reading Time: 3 minutes Natural tragedies naturally elicit religious questions. If there is a God, what kind of God permits death…

How Jesuits did and undid me
Reading Time: 12 minutes Like me, Voltaire was educated by men in the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. Like Voltaire, I’ll…

Old atheism (not the new)
Reading Time: 7 minutes The so-called ‘New Atheism’ of the early twenty-first century was never really new. All atheistic expression can…

GOD is GOP
Reading Time: 2 minutes After hours and hours of reflection, I have become convinced that God is most definitely a Republican.…

Give me a head with hair
Reading Time: 2 minutes When it comes to hair and the religions: similar strokes for similar folks. For most religions, long…

Golfing with an ex-President
Reading Time: < 1 minute First shot teed up for a par five, sliced. Second shot across the fairway out of bounds,…
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