Reading Time: 12 minutes Are you doomscrolling around the ongoing US midterm count? The closeness of many races, the losses on some key issues, and the spectacle-driven politics that a tightly split House of Representatives foretells certainly weigh on the US today. Will results be contested on the grounds that they didn’t yield a massive sweep for one side? […]
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Introducing PINN DROP with Anthony Pinn
Nothing is more human than the act of creation. Whether a book or visual art, music or dance, a new community or a social movement, the urge to create something that didn’t exist before is one of our defining features. Join humanist icon Anthony Pinn for the Pinn Drop podcast, a series of conversations with […]
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Learning to love our messy activism: A podcast on quinoa
Reading Time: 4 minutes There’s the world we want to live in, and there’s the world we have. In many conversations here on OnlySky, I’ve noticed that one of the biggest mental blocks in activist discourse is our frustration that people won’t think or do differently right now. Why should we cater to their ignorance, or their obstinacy? There’s […]
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Wellness is systemic: A podcast episode for mental health
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I first recorded episodes for Global Humanist Shoptalk last year, I had no idea what 2022 was going to hold. I did suspect that far-right legislation would continue to pose problems, and that pandemic wouldn’t be over so easily after all. But I certainly wouldn’t have put money on a full-on war in Ukraine […]
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Walking fast and thinking slow: A podcast episode for the activism under our feet
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the toughest parts of witnessing a global crisis unfold (or more than one, simultaneously) is trying not to let despair deplete our sense of agency. Can you fix the invasion of Ukraine? Can you provide a definitive end to this latest pandemic (and maybe throw in an end to cholera, too)? Or what […]
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Are you listening? What we talk about when we talk about podcasts
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m a huge fan of mutual uplift. What’s the point of having a platform if it’s not being used to raise up others, too? Why should we reinforce a culture that loves putting individuals on unsustainable pedestals, when we can celebrate excellence in healthier ways? Many “nones” detest religious cults of personality, but we all […]
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Podcast launch: Global Humanist Shoptalk, audio edition, takes off!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Launch day at last, Shoptalkers! Every other Friday, I’ll be posting episodes of Global Humanist Shoptalk, a podcast meant to offer an alternative to knee-jerk commentary about the world. Every episode, I invite you to share in exploring how an everyday item or seemingly straightforward topic can serve as an intricate site of worldly action. […]
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Chasing false wonder | Captain Cassidy
From the time she was young, Captain Cassidy heard promises of wonder. If she did this, or believed that, or avoided a long list of temptations, she would find herself smack in the middle of a world of wonder. She chased that promise from Catholic Maryland to Baptist Alabama to Waco Texas, finally landing in […]
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The Measurable Morality of Atheists [podcast]
Reading Time: 2 minutes We talked about morality, BYU, aliens, what goes on in your basement when you have teenagers, atheist chaplains, and more!
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Podcast Ep. 391: A Christian Misogynist and the “Downcline” of Morality
Reading Time: < 1 minute This week, we talked about preaching at the beach, adoption, Satanic erotica, the mom who assaulted a Catholic teacher, and more!