Beliefnet’s Executive Editor Elizabeth Sams conducted an exclusive interview with former president Jimmy Carter. According to the article, Carter has taught a Sunday Bible study class at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia for the past 25 years. There were a couple questions relating to state/church separation and atheism, though, that garnered some interesting responses: Given your life-long involvement with questions of church & state, do you think the current administration has brought too much, or not enough Christianity… Read more
I Sold My Soul on eBay will be released in bookstores everywhere on Tuesday! (Or so I’m told. If I’m wrong, Barbara’s Bookstore is *so* not going to happy with me.) If your local bookstore isn’t carrying it, I suggest staging a hunger strike until a shipment of books arrives. You have my blessings. Some of you have been asking me questions about buying the book so I’ll try to answer them all at once: Where can I buy your… Read more
Kurt Vonnegut was the Honorary President of the American Humanist Association. As the AHA’s notes in their press release on Vonnegut’s passing: “I am a humanist,” [Vonnegut] wrote in a letter to the organization’s members, “which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.” As always, Vonnegut never lacked humor in his conversations with the AHA: In 2003, when asked permission to quote from something he’d written, Vonnegut… Read more
If you walk on the south side of the University of Illinois at Chicago, near the dorms I lived in one year, you can see Barbara’s Bookstore from a distance. Which is what I did: Then I noticed something in the window… it was at a distance, but I could slightly make out the words: So I had to go up close and check it out: I like that 🙂 Meet author and atheist! It’s like advertising for a book… Read more
