Two different scholarships offer college students the opportunity to see our very own Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, at the Northwest Free-thought Alliance Conference in Portland, OR the weekend of April 5-7th. The conference also features Darrel Ray (author of The God Virus: How Religion Affects Our Lives and Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality), Valerie Tarico (author of Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light), and Australian folk singer-songwriter Shelley Segal. Read more
I swear to you I thought this was a Poe… until I saw that the comments were disabled, which makes me think it must actually be a Christian. In any case, these are 50 ways that this Christian believes marriage equality will hurt society: Read more
There’s lot of good stuff at the American Humanist Association’s new Tumblr, like this clip from comedian Hannibal Buress: Read more
Zack Kopplin is having one hell of a run of great publicity. Between getting the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award last summer to a wonderful profile at io9, he’s been speaking out against Creationism in Louisiana public schools and for good science in general — and people are paying attention. Read more
I don’t know what’s worse: The AIDS joke, the bad advice, or the idea that women thousands of years ago probably wanted to jump Jesus: Read more
I know times are tough right now. There are lots of people out there unemployed or underemployed, many of whom are struggling to make ends meet. It would take a special kind of Christian to exploit those who are living hand-to-mouth, right? Read more
Members of the Chambersburg School Board (in Pennsylvania) this week voted against allowing a gay-straight alliance club (GSA) to form at a local high school. Read more
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
