Interview with Dan Barker – Podcast #22

Episode 22 of the NEPA Freethought Society Podcast is now available! I interviewed Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, shortly after the 2012 PA State Atheist/Humanist Conference at which both of us had spoken. This podcast episode is also accompanied by a Youtube video which is a live recording of the interview […]

PA House to declare October 2012 as “Prayer Month”

Readers of this blog and those paying attention to news important to secular Americans may be aware that Pennsylvania lawmakers have been notorious for — if not outright violating the Establishment Clause — blurring the line separating church and state. While sectarian Christian prayers have permeated House of Representative sessions (mentions of Jesus’ blood and […]

Jesus prayer closes Republican National Convention

Archbishop of New York and President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Timothy Dolan was invited to offer a benediction to close the 2012 Republican National Convention in which Mitt Romney accepted his party’s nomination to run for president of the United States. Deacon Keith Fournier, writing for Catholic Online, notes that […]

Interview with Herb Silverman

Herb Silverman, the president of the Secular Coalition for America and author of the autobiographical book “Candidate Without a Prayer,” was recently interviewed for episode 97 of the Angry Atheist Podcast hosted by Reap Paden. Silverman discusses his book, his motivation for founding the secular coalition for America, separation of church and state, morality, what […]

Podcast 18: Edwina Rogers and Kelly Damerow of Secular Coalition for America

Now available on Youtube! Episode 18 of the NEPA Freethought Society Podcast — featuring my interview with Edwina Rogers and Kelly Damerow from the Secular Coalition for America — is now available! The podcast was recorded as a guerrilla episode from the Secular Student Alliance’s 2012 conference which I had spoken at. A special focus […]