Category: Events
Two Atheists Walk into a Church…
Would you find it odd for a Texas church to invite atheists to speak to their congregants? That’s exactly what CrossPoint Community Lutheran did, when Ken Chitwood invited former Baptist deacon Donald Wright and myself to speak. I’d have been hesitant if it weren’t Ken that lent the olive branch. His continual push for dialogue and [...]
An Evening at Church to Increase Understanding
This Saturday, May 4th, I will be joining Donald Wright at CrossPoint Community Church in Houston, TX for a special event that seeks to improve relations between non-believers and the faithful by increasing their understanding of our god(s)-free outlook. The evening will be hosted by Ken Chitwood, who writes for the belief section of the [...]
Taping and Floating Along
It’s been a month since logging on to the administrator profile for this site, and I’m greatful that my contributors have been holding it together while I’ve been out. Between packing and moving into my first home, I’ve unexpectedly lost my job. My time as of late has been spent scurrying to the local Habitat [...]
What Kind of god?
Propagandists manipulate emotions to spread a simple idea. For instance, politicians bring up 9/11 when they want to sway an audience on foreign policy issues. The religious use this strategy at every national tragedy and disaster that presents itself. If that fails, they embellish or outright fabricate stories to stir emotion. Stepping in to proselytize [...]
Skepticon and Renewed Challenges
I had the awesome opportunity to spend last weekend in lovely Springfield, Missouri. Springfield is about twenty times larger than my current city of Rolla, but still only has a population of about 440,000. Despite its puny size, about 1500 skeptics and atheists descended upon the town like a plague of secular locusts to celebrate [...]
Humanists Give!
In the spring of this year I was an intern for Foundation Beyond Belief (FBB). Founded a couple years ago by author and former college professor Dale McGowan, the mission of the Foundation is “To demonstrate humanism at its best by supporting efforts to improve this world and this life, and to challenge humanists to embody [...]
Gay Marriage. Why Are We Still Talking About It?
Rice University’s Herring Hall was buzzing with conversations about marriage equality after a talk given by philosopher John Corvino a few weeks ago. In his hour-long presentation, Corvino* examined the ethics of the debate about gay marriage in the public square. The evening opened with an introduction to the progress being made across the states [...]
Misanthropic Apology
Present and future children of the world, before you lose your innocence and grow up to be worthless apathetic parasites, I want to apologize for the state in which we will leave the planet to you. I am not strong enough to change our polluted course. I am sorry we are hurling ourselves relentlessly toward [...]
Banned Books? Weak.
As many of you may already know, this week is the 30th annual Banned Books Week. The American Library Association (ALA) explains this celebration best, “Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to [...]
Getting At the Heart of the Matter
With whatever latest drama and disagreements within the secular community going on, occasionally the root of our common problems gets glossed over as a given. This core of our common dilemmas is a broken thinking process, marked by convoluted and contradictory definitions, accepting fallacies as tenets of belief, and a general refusal to examine beliefs [...]
