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.
X drew in a breath and I knew he was about to break the silence, but I needed to make it clear to him first, this whole fiasco, my life. My stomach was tender and tenuous around the hollow of my exhaustion. I dropped words I had sworn I’d never say like little uncertain gifts into X’s hands. Read more
If you haven’t read it yet, it’s a great guide for building a more secular America. If you don’t know already, Sean used to be a state legislator in Maine, the executive director of the Secular Coalition for America, and he’s currently the Director of Strategy and Policy for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Read more
If a public school teacher used class time to have her students pray to God and recite the Lord’s Prayer, what should be the punishment? What if the teacher also put her priest on speakerphone so he could listen in? And what if the teacher also had her kids re-enact scenes from Jesus’ life? Read more