Guy P. Harrison is the author of the popular books 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God — an excellent primer for new atheists trying to figure out how to respond to popular Christian arguments — and 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True. This week marks the release of his latest book: 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian (Prometheus Books, 2013). As with his previous books, this one is easy to read and a great ice-breaker for anyone who wants to start a debate 🙂 An exclusive excerpt from the book is below: Read more
What happens when Rowan Atkinson (a.k.a. Mr. Bean) becomes Archbishop of Canterbury? Only awesome things. (None of which have to do with prayer.) Read more
Last year, the Fort Bragg Military Atheists and Secular Humanists raised $5,000 worth of food and supplies for the group Veterans Empowering Veterans, an organization helping homeless veterans. This year, that group as well as the Central North Carolina Atheists and Humanists are joining forces to raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation (a childhood cancer charity). Read more
Last month, the Clergy Project announced its participation in the RiseSmart [Transition] Assistance program, which would help current pastors acquire the skills they need to transition out of the ministry and into a new career. The first grant recipient was “Adam,” a pastor at a fundamentalist, evangelical church… Read more
Green Street United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina says it won’t perform any marriages between opposite-sex couples until same-sex couples can legally marry in the church as well. Read more
If you run a company, you can’t screen potential employees for their religious views. That should be obvious, but it’s a fact that’s ignored time and time again, despite the Civil Rights Act. In 2011, Edward Wolfe applied for an “operations supervisor position” at Voss Lighting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the interview process, Wolfe was asked repeatedly about his religious beliefs: Read more
You guys, I need help. It’s a sickness. I’m obsessed. I can’t stop watching Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. He’s so ridiculously misogynistic (a.k.a. “Traditional”), treating his wife like property. I was going to skip his latest video, but with a title like “Fornication is not Love,” how could I pass it up? I couldn’t. I had to watch. And you know you have to, too. Highlights are below! Read more
We already know Alcoholics Anonymous is notorious for pushing the idea of God in their Twelve Step program (though there are secular alternatives to AA). But they’re not the only ones. Will at Godless Teens is a freshman at a public high school in Colorado and, yesterday, his health class played host to guest speakers from Overeaters Anonymous, who were there to talk about “how people will often overeat to deal with stress.” Initially, that wasn’t a problem… until Will saw (and took a picture of) what they had written on the board before class: Read more
There have been a number of posts on this site about gay Christians who attend religious schools and have to keep their sexual orientation under wraps. But we rarely hear from faculty members at those schools who have to keep their homosexuality hidden. Read more
