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January 21, 2015
An Interview With Zachary Gallant
“In faraway places with strange sounding namesPeople live in fear of the soldiers and planes,The thunder of hundreds of thousands of boots,The rat-tat-tat-tat of their guns as they shoot.A family’s home, where they’ve lived all their lifeCan disappear in the course of one single night.” And thus, war begins–or, in this case, a children’s book about [Read More...]
January 20, 2015
Where Vlad has been
It’s probably past the point where a New Year’s post is timely or relevant, but I’ve been gone a fair bit and it seems only appropriate to say where I’ve been, so here we are. Physically, I’ve spent the holiday and the first few weeks of January home in Durham, mostly working. I’ve been really academically [Read More...]
January 16, 2015
When dialogue works (and when it doesn’t)
The following is a guest post by Trav Mamone from Bi Any Means. In the Emergent Christian scene, there’s a focus on dialogue between liberals and conservatives. The underlining philosophy is that all Christians are members of the same Body of Christ, and as such, our petty differences shouldn’t cause schisms. I was a Christian [Read More...]
January 6, 2015
Richard Dawkins still doesn’t really get the whole “race” thing
Happy new years from the NPS crew. I’ve had a lot going on (updates to come), but I couldn’t resist a quick update in response to the latest Dawkins twitter scandal. Atheists are a race. Anyone who mounts an argument against atheism is a racist, atheophobic bigot. — Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) January 6, 2015 Let [Read More...]
KKK Imperial Wizard describes a kind of kinship with the Taliban
VICE News recently posted a feature on the KKK’s recruitment of armed forces veterans. This documentary focuses primarily on veteran members of a particular Mississippi chapter. (I would have liked to see more emphasis on broader trends, but that just isn’t VICE’s thing.) Early on in the reportage, Imperial Wizard Steven Howard admits a kind [Read More...]
January 1, 2015
Interfaith literacy: Omar Sarwar on religious violence
On Monday, we posted the second of three parts of an interview with Omar Sarwar. Sarwar is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University who wrote a piece for Huffington Post that thoroughly debunked some of Bill Maher and Sam Harris’ go-to talking points about Islam. I’ve learned a lot from Sarwar about Islam, atheism, and everything in between, and [Read More...]
December 30, 2014
Humanists doing service work abroad: an interview with Conor Robinson
Conor Robinson is a humanist speaker and activist from Los Angeles, California. He and I first met my freshman year at Yale, when he founded the Yale Humanist Society. Since graduating, he spent time in Los Angeles doing Teach for America, before pioneering the Pathfinders Project, a yearlong global humanist service trip. Conor was the recipient [Read More...]
December 29, 2014
#illridewithyou: a reminder that the little things do matter
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 on the comedy news quiz Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Moz Jobrani said: As a Middle Eastern male, I know that the whole Middle Eastern community was watching going, ‘Please don’t be Middle Eastern. Please don’t be Middle Eastern.’ And then it came out that [Read More...]
September 2, 2014
NonProphet Status relaunch is live!
We are still working on transferring our archives over (and our email subscription isn’t set up yet, so if you aren’t getting emails don’t worry!)
In case you missed it, our new home at Patheos is live! Here’s all of our new content so far!
Chris Stedman looks back at the founding of NonProphet Status and discusses how it will be moving on without him.
Returning NPS writers give Chris a send-off by reflecting on how he’s inspired them.
Vlad Chituc writes about why he doesn’t care about deconverting religious believers.
Jesus & Dawkin’s Mike Lehmann talks with NPS’s new editor, Vlad Chituc, about the sites relaunch.
Sarah Jones reflects on atheism’s absence in Ferguson, and what that means for atheists interested in social justice.
Alex Chituc reflects on Alain de Botton’s writing and how to find guidence in the absence of God.
August 31, 2014
Exciting announcement: NPS is relaunching at Patheos
Tomorrow, NonProphet Status is relaunching at our new home on Patheos. We’ll keep our announcement and introduction short, since we have a lot of exciting content lined up for our launch. We’re under new stewardship, with an exciting bunch of writers, new and old.
Please update your RSS feeds with our new URL, and if you’re interested in contributing please email your pitches or finished pieces to NPSblog@gmail.com for consideration.
We’re all really excited to breathe new life into NPS, and we hope you’ll join us!
-The NPS team
