My friend August sent along this image from some book in Polish. I didn’t realize my name needed translating: Then again, I guess that’s closer than most people get… Read more
The University College London Union Atheists, Secularists & Humanists are preparing for their organizational fair at the beginning of the year and they plan to hand out condoms with skeptic-friendly phrases on them: Right now, here’s what they’re considering: Science: keeping you safe since 1919. Nothing gets past reason. Protect thy neighbour as thyself. We won’t tell you where to stick it. It’s your decision. You can vote for your favorite here. Alex Gabriel at The Heresy Club loves the… Read more
St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba wasn’t doing so well a few years ago. The congregation was growing smaller and the church building always needed maintenance work: But now, the building has been converted — no pun intended — into the WestEnd Commons, a rental property for low-income families: Work has begun to reshape St. Matthew’s into WestEnd Commons, a 25-unit housing unit. The rental apartments are intended for families and will range from one to four bedrooms. Tenants… Read more
Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, can’t understand this whole “Clergy Project” thing. In many of the stories we’ve heard from former pastors — Teresa MacBain, Jerry DeWitt, Dan Barker — they talk about how they started having doubts but stayed in the pulpit because they thought it was just a phase. When they explored their doubts even more, they realized they no longer believed in God. But what could they do? They had families to take… Read more
The Kentucky House of Representatives puts out a monthly YouTube video in which they recap what they worked on over the past few weeks. August’s video just came out. The focus this month? Fighting to take evolution out of the state’s science standards. They’re proud of doing that. Just watch the first two minutes and weep: (Thanks to @spotics for the link!) Read more
Earlier tonight, even though the official agenda said “prayer” on it, atheist Dan Nerren delivered a secular invocation at a Tulsa City Council meeting, much to the chagrin of many locals. The text of the invocation was hardly offensive, but one reporter got reactions from two church members who attended the gathering: In the audience [were] two members from Brookside Baptist Church. “I was kind of hesitant on coming down here cause I wasn’t for sure what he would say… Read more
Florida Senator Marco Rubio just introduced Mitt Romney to the RNC crowd. In his speech, he used these words: We are special because we’ve been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We’re bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have. … Our national motto is “In God we Trust,” reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value… Read more
You can see Part 1 of this video here. [Hemant adds: I know I’m biased about Math, but I love this video from Edward!] Read more
