Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
For immediate release October 4, 2012 – 12:15PM EST For more information, please contact Justin Vacula: http://www.skepticink.com/justinvacula/contact/ @justinvacula on Twitter Justin Vacula resigns leadership position with Secular Coalition for America Following a lengthy period of self-reflection and deliberation, I am freely resigning from my position as co-chair of the Secular Coalition for America’s Pennsylvania chapter. The […]
The topic of infant male circumcision is controversial in many circles; some deem it as ‘male genital mutilation’ or ‘forced mutilation of boys’ while others consider circumcision to be a harmless and healthy procedure (this post won’t be about the merits of either position). Persons in both camps of thought may be able to object […]
Archbishop of New York and President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Timothy Dolan was invited to offer a benediction to close the 2012 Republican National Convention in which Mitt Romney accepted his party’s nomination to run for president of the United States. Deacon Keith Fournier, writing for Catholic Online, notes that […]
Big Spring High School in Newville, Pennsylvania will be departing from its tradition of prayer at public meetings and will now be adhering to the tradition of separation of church and state. Today, Wilbur Wolf Jr. — the president of the school board — had announced that prayer will no longer be taking place at public […]
Herb Silverman, the president of the Secular Coalition for America and author of the autobiographical book “Candidate Without a Prayer,” was recently interviewed for episode 97 of the Angry Atheist Podcast hosted by Reap Paden. Silverman discusses his book, his motivation for founding the secular coalition for America, separation of church and state, morality, what […]
