Amy Couch
Posts by Amy Couch (page 3)
Hanging Between Heaven and Hell: Exorcisms on the Rise
I was fourteen years old when I saw The Exorcist for the first time. My best friend’s older brother brought the movie home on... Read More
Remembering the Elaine Massacre
On October 1, 1919, a man named Frank Moore gave the following statement (edited here for style and brevity): On the night of September... Read More
The X-Man Effect: When Genetics Catch Up to Human Mutation
I am not a geneticist. In fact, when meeting with scientists at the National Institute of Health (NIH), I often paraphrase Denzel Washington’s famous... Read More
Preserving Whose History?
With the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold the separation of church and state (by determining that the Bladensburg cross was... Read More
Happy. Healthy. Heathen. An Interview with Recovering from Religion’s Gayle Jordan
Gayle Jordan is the executive director of Recovering from Religion. She is a former Southern Baptist who left the faith ten years ago when... Read More
Morality Survey Revisited: How Did Humanists Measure Up?
On August 23 we published the article, “Can Good Be Good if Nobody Knows It?” to address a morality study published by Nature Human... Read More
Can Good Be Good if Nobody Knows It?
Thousands of years ago Socrates asked the question: Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because... Read More