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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.

Meet Molly Tuttle, the best bluegrass guitarist in the world (with videos!)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Twenty-nine-year-old Molly Tuttle is the best bluegrass guitarist in the world…

The role of numerology in world religions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most ancient cultures utilized numbers as symbolic representations of ideas, and it is curious that numeric symbols…

Meet Sam Francis, a 230-year-old London atheist
Reading Time: 3 minutes Samuel Francis wrote a work called ‘Watson Refuted’ in 1791 London. Here are select quotes that may…

What might 100,000 more years of evolution do for the future of morality?
Reading Time: 2 minutes It was a bawdy planet for hundreds of millions of years; the whole of it reeked of…

Red and Blue America go to marriage counseling
Reading Time: 4 minutes Red and Blue America, locked in a troubled marriage for some time, finally agreed to see a…

Guess which Justices ain’t exactly environmental experts
Reading Time: < 1 minute Six conservative corporate Supreme Court Justices determined that the Environmental Protection Agency is not actually empowered to protect us…

Will the James Webb Space Telescope confirm UFO religions?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will the James Webb Space Telescope confirm what the UFO religions have been claiming—that extraterrestrial beings, having…

An astonishing new tool reopens the question of human significance
Reading Time: 5 minutes In a joint effort by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, the James…

Roe didn’t fall due to answered prayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those who support the demise of Roe’s legal protection for abortion said the decision was the effect…

So long and farewell to angry atheism
Reading Time: 3 minutes Angry atheism is as old as atheism. It’s as old as theism itself. Let’s imagine that thirty…
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