“Random Google Hangout 5”

Last night, I met with Katie Graham, Diane Bruce, Reap Paden, and Damion Reinhardt for an impromptu Google Hangout where discussion ran the gamut. Enjoy. As always, feel free to leave your comments below and please indicate timestamps if you are commenting on a particular point in the video.

Debate challenge published in local newspaper

A modified version of my recent debate challenge to theists has been published in the Wilkes-Barre-based The Times Leader including an interesting title selected by the editor. Throwing down challenge regarding God’s existence Following my church/state activism in 2009, I received a large amount of hate mail from religious individuals throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania who were […]

Ellery Schempp events – Reflections and video

I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Ellery Schempp — a separation of church and state hero most famous for the 1963 Abington School District v. Schempp United States Supreme Court case which had deemed public school-sponsored Bible reading and prayer unconstitutional — this weekend at a commemorative event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Dr. Schempp addressed freethinkers, […]

Passport has arrived!

A quick update… My passport has arrived via postal mail! Thanks to gracious donors and supporters who promoted my Indiegogo campaign aiming to fund a trip to the upcoming Empowering Women Through Secularism conference in Dublin, Ireland, I raised $3515; the fundraiser was successful and I will be attending the Dublin conference. Stay connected to […]

Challenge

Justin Vacula, atheist activist, activist for the separation of church and state, and co-organizer of the NEPA Freethought Society — a social, educational, activist, and philosophical community group of non-theists in Northeastern Pennsylvania — challenges priests, ministers, theologians, and other individuals in Northeastern Pennsylvania and beyond to defend their religious beliefs in a “Does God […]