Mike Jones, the male escort who serviced Ted Haggard, is putting the infamous Haggard massage table on eBay. Proceeds from the auction go to Project Angel Heart. They provide meals to people living with life-threatening illnesses. According to Jones, the table has a few tears but is totally usable… [Insert your own inappropriate gay joke here.] (via Boing Boing) [tags]atheist, atheism, Mike Jones, prostitute, Ted Haggard, massage table, eBay, Project Angel Heart, Boing Boing[/tags] Read more
Congratulations to the winners/runners-up/honorable mentions for this year’s American Atheists scholarships! To win, these students showed evidence of their atheist activism (be it through essays, articles, letters-to-the-editor, or all of the above). A handsome stud named Hemant won the scholarship last year. Now, his reign is over. *sigh* But yay for the new crop! Let’s run through some of these names… The $2000 scholarship winner was Meghan Regis of the Atheist Agenda student group at the University of Texas at… Read more
The foreword to I Sold My Soul on eBay is written by a pastor named Rob Bell. If you’re an atheist, maybe you haven’t heard of him. I hadn’t until last summer. Same deal if you’re a Christian over 30. But in the past several months, I’ve run into a large number of younger Christians who love this guy. Their ears perk up at the sound of his name. You know that feeling of instant connection you get as an… Read more
The New York Times has an unprecedented five books with a secular viewpoint currently on the Hardcover Nonfiction bestsellers list (top 35 books in the country): #7: Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel #12: Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion #13: Chris Hedges’ American Fascists #21: Victor Stenger’s God: The Failed Hypothesis #24: Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation And more secular books are coming to the list! I hope… Including Taner Edis’ An Illusion of Harmony (available now!) and Chris Hitchens’… Read more
On Tuesday, I was in Dallas taping a couple episodes of Life Today, a Christian talk show. I was with my friend Jim Henderson. You can read his thoughts here. My observations from the weekend: When going out for lunch with Jim and the book’s publicist Joel Kneedler, I saw a store called Mardel Christian and Educational Supply. It was like an Office Depot… but for Christians. Their vision is “to see the product [sic] we sell and donate provide… Read more
