Hemant Mehta is the founder and editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, and podcast co-host. He is a former National Board Certified math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago. He has appeared on CNN and FOX News and served on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief and the Secular Student Alliance. He has written multiple books, including I Sold My Soul on eBay and The Young Atheist's Survival Guide. He also edited the book Queer Disbelief.
When Foundation Beyond Belief began a few years ago, we wanted to make sure our overhead was low and our giving to various charities was high. That’s still happening today — we give our members a chance to give as much of their monthly donations as they want directly to charity; giving to the foundation itself is still optional. The downside of this method is that we’re often making do with relatively little funding… Read more
Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona is back with another one of his offensive, misogynistic sermons! (His sermon about how his wife cooks for him was incredibly popular, but this one is bound to be on the Greatest Hits album.) The subject: How good it is to be old-fashioned. Just as before, highlights are below, because I watched the whole damn thing… Read more
Last week, actor/comedian Eddie Izzard accepted the 2013 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from the Humanist Community at Harvard, American Humanist Association, and Harvard Community of Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics. Video of his acceptance speech is now available online (Izzard appears around the 12:00 mark; the Q&A portion begins at 48:57): Read more