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 […]
Many of my supporters have seen numerous pictures including my one-of-a-kind handcrafted necklace* heralding the Skeptic Ink Network (SIN) logo. Since being removed from the network, I have been thinking of what to do with the necklace… After some deliberation, I have decided to auction the necklace and use proceeds to pay for costs associated […]
While in attendance at the Empowering Women Through Secularism conference in Ireland, I met Carlos Diaz — President of Atheist Alliance International (AAI) (and a great candidate for a long-lost twin brother) — who was very friendly and extremely approachable. Diaz responded to an e-mail I sent him with hopes to meet in Dublin…and he […]
While at the Dublin Empowering Women Through Secularism conference, I interviewed Catherine O’Brien who offered some closing remarks on the final day of the event. Some controversy followed O’Brien’s remarks: an audience member (a Saturday panelist) interrupted her remarks, an audience member (another Saturday panelist) walked out of the room during closing remarks and comments […]