Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
I addressed Wilkes-Barre City Council during the public comment section of their June 13, 2013 meeting voicing my opposition to prayer offered by Councilwoman Maureen Lavelle at council meetings. I urged council members — speaking on behalf of the NEPA Freethought Society — to cease their divisive, inappropriate, coercive, exclusionary, unnecessary, and unwelcome religious rituals. […]
Today — after its scheduled one week of display — a Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) banner reading “Nothing Fails Like Prayer” was removed from Public Square in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The banner was placed as a response to a National Day of Prayer banner overlooking Public Square and a corresponding prayer event in the same […]
I was invited to appear on episode 47 of the A-News Podcast produced by ApartmentJ Entertainment to discuss my experience at Women in Secularism 2 and surrounding controversy, the “Nothing Fails Like Prayer” banner I — with the help of the Freedom From Religion Foundation — had erected on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre, my upcoming […]
I appeared on the May 24, 2013 episode of “Corbett” — a talkradio program on WILK Newsradio hosted by Steve Corbett — to discuss the “Nothing Fails Like Prayer” banner I, with the help of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) had placed atop Public Square in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Within my nearly 13 minute interview, […]
The Times Leader recently published an article titled “W-B Council asked about shootings, after hours club and banner on Public Square” concerning, at least in part, a Wilkes-Barre city council meeting in which the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) “Nothing Fails Like Prayer” banner I — with the help of the FFRF — had placed […]
