Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
Post event reporting will be available the evening of 5/3/13 – JV Last week, I saw a banner erected on Wilkes-Barre’s Public Square recognizing the National Day of Prayer and promoting an upcoming “Circle the Square With Prayer” event — hosted by the National Day of Prayer Committee of NEPA — in which Northeastern Pennsylvanians […]
Edit: This piece was originally authored April 14 and has been updated. – JV Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives are at it yet again. First it was ‘The Year of the Bible,’ Prayer Month,’ ‘The Year of Religious Diversity,’ seeking to remove anonymity from individuals engaging in lawsuits seeking to uphold the separation of church […]
The Delaware Valley chapter of American United for Separation of Church and State will be presenting its third annual Church/State Issues Symposium on April 20, 2013 from 9:00AM to 5:00PM at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. This one-day event includes a diverse array of speakers — some atheistic, Catholic, Unitarian, Baptist — who will […]
Last month, I wrote about Pennsylvania’s House Bill 922 sponsored by Rep. Tim Krieger (and co-sponsored by 28 other representatives) which seeks to remove anonymity from individuals who file church/state complaints. I stated reasons why I oppose House Bill 922 and took action by encouraging other writers to share the story. I also contacted Phyllis […]
Pennsylvania Nonbelievers, one of the organizations which made the 2012 PA State Atheist/Humanist Conference a reality, recently uploaded my speech from the conference. Some parts of my speech were read from an essay I had written concerning separation of church and state issues in the state of Pennsylvania in which I have been directly involved with or […]
