Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
I’m currently sitting in the lobby of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre International Airport waiting for my flight to Philadelphia which will connect me to Dublin, Ireland. I leave Philadelphia at 9:00PM local time and will arrive in Dublin around 9AM Dublin time to later report on the Empowering Women Through Secularism conference [Update: The flight leaving to […]
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 […]
While preparing for my trip to the Empowering Women Through Secularism (EWTS) conference — thanks to a fundraiser graciously promoted and funded by supporters — I failed to notice any type of anti-harassment policy listed on the conference’s website and am thus quite befuddled. I praise conference organizers for not implementing an anti-harassment policy, but cannot […]
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 […]