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Although medicine should stay in the business of being evidence-based, says Harvard historian of science Anne Harrington, other healing communities don’t necessarily need to follow that model. There’s a place for data, but you need to know what data can’t tell you.

While 2010 was an encouraging year for LGBT equality, reports of the death of Mormon opposition to homosexuality are greatly exaggerated.

In a manner of speaking.

When a serious philosophical lecture on the origin and meaning of Santa Claus is interrupted by the tinkling of bells, jovial laughter, and the mysterious delivery of a case of beer, our writer has the chance to muse on his own former Christmastime convictions.

RD thinks the 73% of Americans who celebrate a Jesus-less Christmas are just fine.

Paul Simon, Rev. J. M. Gates, and the meaning of Christmas.

We would plead that the Lord have mercy on your soul, but you have no soul, as you exist only as a lie and nothing more.

I’m dreaming of a televised Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know.

Despite the efforts of those eager to see a “War on Christmas” at every turn the origins of this season’s traditions are no more Christian than those of Easter eggs or the Easter bunny. This was a time of goodwill and generosity long before anyone heard of a baby born in a stable.