The video below, part of The Atheist Voice series, offers 10 tips for interfaith couples (specifically, atheists and believers) trying to make their relationships work: We’d love to hear your thoughts on the project — more videos will be posted soon — and we’d also appreciate your suggestions as to which questions we ought to tackle next! And if you like what you’re seeing, please consider supporting this site on Patreon. Read more
Last week, in a post titled “In Oregon, Students Are Skipping Math Class to Learn About the Bible,” I wrote about how there was a law in Oregon allowing students to ditch their public school classes for up to five hours a week in order to attend religious indoctrination classes. In one case, a program called PREP4Kids even provided a shuttle to take kids from Banks Elementary School to Banks Community United Methodist Church. For whatever reason, PolitiFact Oregon decided that what I wrote was a claim worth checking out — something to be dubbed anywhere from “True” to “Pants on Fire.” How did it go? Read more
The Unitarian Universalist Association is selling its headquarters and three other buildings in Beacon Hill, the toniest part of Boston, to move to much less stately digs in an “innovation district” on the city’s outskirts. The New York Times, under the headline “Denominations Downsizing and Selling Assets in More Secular Era,” reports that that kind of thing has been happening all over. Read more
Responding to a story about how some pro-choice women are wearing necklaces with hangers on them, Sarah Palin took to Facebook to voice her concerns: Palin’s upset because some women are wearing a “symbol of death” around their necks? Maybe someone should remind her to look down… Read more
Now that the news of Fred Phelps’ passing has sunk in, there are a few last tidbits worth sharing: 1) Earlier this week, Westboro Baptist Church was calling any speculation about Fred Phelps’ health “foolish.” Read more
The missing Malaysian airliner is child’s play compared to the sadness and confusion that will befall the world’s population when Jesus returns for the Rapture, says Anne Graham Lotz, Billy Graham’s daughter, on her blog. Under the heading “Where Have All the People Gone?”, she writes: Read more
Louisiana has a state motto, state bird, and state flower. Now, Rep. Thomas Carmody (above) wants to suggest a state book. Guess what it is. Guess! I’ll give you a hint: Carmody is a Republican. Read more
Nate Phelps, the estranged son of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, broke the news over the weekend that the elder Phelps was on the “edge of death.” Now that Fred is dead, Nate has issued a public statement by way of Recovering From Religion, a group for which he serves on the board. Read more
A priest and a physicist walk into a bar… and it’s the same guy. Possibly minus the bar part, such is life for John Cunningham, S.J., Ph.D., an associate professor of physics (and chair of the physics department) at Loyola University in Chicago. His bio says that his research interests focus on experimental particle and astrophysics, cosmic rays, dark energy, and heavy quark physics. When he’s not studying and teaching, Cunningham is a Catholic priest — a Jesuit, to be precise… Read more
