Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
Wilkes-Barre City Council will be hosting its next council meeting on Tuesday, July 16 [not July 11 as I had previously believed]. I encourage local church/state separation advocates to attend this meeting with prepared comments objecting to council’s tradition of government-led prayer. I first addressed this issue and members of council during the June 13, […]
I was interviewed for the now available July 8, 2013 episode of the Australian-based Full Frontal Zealotry podcast. I spoke about my recent experience at the 2013 Empowering Women Through Secularism conference in Dublin, my activism concerning opposition to prayer at Wilkes-Barre City Council meetings including collaborative efforts with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, approaches […]
Confusion and rumors persist 41 months later – some citizens of Northeastern Pennsylvania continue to falsely believe that I had entered into a public drunken stupor and urinated on a nativity scene on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. People continue to confuse me with Nathan Strawn, a Catholic King’s College student who urinated on a […]
Last week, I drank coffee and tea with Pastor Shawn Walker of First Baptist Church in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Prior to the beginning of the June 13, 2013 Wilkes-Barre City Council meeting which I had attended to object to government-led prayer during council meetings, Walker had invited me to have discussion at a later time saying […]
Al Stefanelli, writing for Syndicated News Services, wrote about my objection to government-led prayer during Wilkes-Barre City Council meetings within an article titled “Atheist activist objects to prayers before City Council meetings.” Stefanelli’s reporting includes prior reporting from WNEP-TV 16 and highlights some of my recent activism in the Wilkes-Barre area including — with the […]
