I am a graduate of medicine and theology with a Ph.D in medical ethics. I tutor in medical ethics at the University of Melbourne, am an (occasional) adjunct Lecturer in Ethics at Ridley Melbourne, and a voluntary researcher with Ethos. I am also a Fellow of ISCAST and a past chair of the Melbourne Chapter of Christians for Biblical Equality. I have special interests in professional ethics, sexual ethics and the ethics of virtue.
This post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the Secular Coalition for America. He also blogs at Rant & Reason … Last Friday I was quoted a few times in an article by David Gibson entitled “Non-Believers Losing Faith in Obama.” [Sidenote: I found the title amusing, considering the Politico piece which mentioned us in June was titled “Atheists keep faith with Barack Obama.”] The article itself is devoted to highlighting ways the Obama administration has disappointed the secular… Read more
This post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the Secular Coalition for America. He also blogs at Rant & Reason … Back at school, I signed up for a class that was listed as “Religion in Culture”. I thought it would be an interesting overview. As it turned out, the grad student teaching the class had other, more specific ideas, and the class ended up as “Evangelism and Sports”. It was interesting, and I’ve been dying to use the… Read more
This post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the Secular Coalition for America. He also blogs at Rant & Reason … I’ve been watching the confirmation hearing for Justice Sonia Sotomayor. It’s of particular interest to the Secular Coalition because she’ll be replacing Justice David Souter, who was one of the staunchest defenders of the separation of church and state, but we don’t know her views. We sent a letter to the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urging… Read more
This post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the Secular Coalition for America. He also blogs at Rant & Reason … Like Hemant, I’ve been watching the imminent appointment of Francis Collins to head the NIH. Unlike Hemant, I’ve been very… apprehensive. For one thing, I worry that he will bring religion into everything, partly in an official capacity. On the first three pages of his book, he writes about how he “felt compelled to invoke a connection with… Read more
This post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the Secular Coalition for America. He also blogs at Rant & Reason … Many of you have heard of William Lobdell before, and I know Hemant has written about him and his excellent book Losing My Religion. As it turns out, the latest issue of The Humanist magazine contains an interview I did with him! It’s one of the pieces not available online – I can only assume that it’s so… Read more