Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
I was invited to appear as a special guest host for episode 29 of the A-News podcast to discuss updates concerning the vandalized (and restored) Freedom From Religion Foundation’s holiday freethought banner which was placed on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre, the fundraiser launched to help send me to Women in Secularism 2 [and help provide […]
Hemant Mehta, the “Friendly Atheist,” has launched a year-end poll in which readers can select their favorite ‘atheist billboard’ of the year. Making the final cut of 18 billboards is a billboard I submitted to the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS) in early 2012, on behalf of the NEPA Freethought Society, which was slated […]
I was invited to appear as a guest host for episode 25 of the A-News Podcast to discuss the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Let reason prevail” banner which was placed on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. A local resident named Joe McDonald — one day after the placement of the banner — was videotaped vandalizing the banner, […]
I was invited to appear on episode two of the new “Chill Girls in Pink Corvettes” podcast with @reneehendricks, @woolybumblebee, and @jeh74 (‘Outwest’) to discuss secular/atheist activism and current controversy in the atheist/skeptic communities. How can people get involved in secular/atheist activism? How can people who shy away from controversy contribute? What sort of pushback […]
One of the greatest barriers to having critical discussion with many religious believers — from my experience — is the meme that applying skepticism to religious ideas is rude, offensive, intolerant, and hateful. Rather than defending ideas or simply exiting the discussion, various theists have objected to the discussion taking place and heaped abuse on the skeptic. […]
