Author: Stephanie Savage

Stephanie Savage focused on fiction writing before her coma. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including American Atheist, Jewish Currents, Snicker, Potpourri, and 3 am Magazine. The July/August 2015 issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine features her article “Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience.” Her essay “Sympathy for the Devil-Believers” will appear in a future issue of Free Inquiry. Savage writes about her recovery through a skeptical and humanist lens in her blog, Coma Chameleon: My Recovery Chronicles.
Saving My Life by Saving My Soul?
 Free Inquiry Volume 36, No. 6
October / November 2016
 Stephanie Savage

Hospital and nursing-home clergy treated this nonbeliever with serial disrespect.

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Sympathy for the Devil-Believers
 Free Inquiry Volume 36, No. 2
February / March 2016
 Stephanie Savage

“‘How can you be moral without God?’ my companion asked me in all earnestness. I’ve often thought I should’ve answered, ‘You know, you’re right,’ and stabbed his hand with my fork.”

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Without a Prayer of a Chance
 Free Inquiry Volume 35, No. 6
October / November 2015
 Stephanie Savage

I don’t credit God for my extraordinary recovery from illness, but I won’t begrudge my friends the satisfaction they got from praying for me.

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