Last week, I ran this contest: The Mormon church now has its own publishing imprint! The first project will be to “publish all of the known personal papers, correspondence, journals and other primary sources of Mormonism’s founding leader, Joseph Smith…” What other titles will the Mormon church be publishing? Here are the Top 5 responses (with submitters)! 5| The Three Little Nephites and the Big Bad Lamanite: A Child’s Guide to Race Relations. (Renacier) 4| Seven Steps to Removing Skid… Read more
The Secular Student Alliance (of which I am a part) is doing something that almost seems like an afterthought, but it’s not seen very often in the freethought community: promoting a religious organization with which we have much else in common. This is from the SSA’s eMpirical newsletter: Catholics for Choice is a pro-choice, pro-contraception, pro-sexual rights and pro-separation of church and state nonprofit based in Washington, DC. We at the Secular Student Alliance know that very few readers of… Read more
Nadine edits crossword puzzles for a living and uses the Encyclopedia Mythica as a reference. If you browse through the articles on the site, you can read brief descriptions of various mythical creatures/people. The site just tells it like it is. Only one entry, though, gets its own disclaimer: Yahweh … This article is not intended as a religious discussion. It relates only to the mythological and historical aspects of the use and development of the name of God. No… Read more
Jessica Hagy, author of Indexed, shares her take on the New Seven Sins: Click here for a larger version of the image. You can also read my interview with Jessica and see some of her latest non-Indexed work at the Penguin Group blog. [tags]atheist, atheism, Catholic[/tags] Read more
… in this *completely* scientific poll. Also noteworthy: As I write this, the Vatican is 100% atheistic… the Pope has revealed his true nature! (Thanks to Frank for the link!) [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
The ultimate Midwest Skeptical Meet-up Party (with two hours of exclusive, unadulterated, unabashedly free Guitar Hero) is just over a week away! If you’re coming, please sign up on the Facebook event page! [tags]atheist, atheism[/tags] Read more
Here’s a t-shirt we can all enjoy: (via Mental Floss) [tags]atheist, atheism, Christian[/tags] Read more
Mike Clawson here again: Hemant just posted about a column in the Dallas Morning News that advocated the ethical treatment of animals raised for harvest. I’m all for that. However a few of you suggested that it didn’t go far enough in advocating full vegetarianism. This raises a question for me that I’ve wanted to ask for a long time now: leaving off health reasons and environmental sustainability reasons (both of which I think are very good reasons), why would… Read more
Rod Dreher, an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, wrote an article about how he was giving up meat and dairy for Lent. The austere Orthodox Lent – no meat or dairy products for almost two months – reminds those observing the fast how blessed we are in ordinary time and how much we take for granted amid our prosperity. Lent draws us back from forgetting, from moral and spiritual lassitude, and teaches a lesson that most of us… Read more
This isn’t atheism related. But I’ve been read Lindsey Kirth’s website for a while now, and it always makes me smile. It’s funny, honest, and you feel like you really know her after reading just a few postings. There are only a handful of blogs out there where every post contains something meaningful and entertaining, but this is one of them. Here are just a few of my favorite recent postings. Consider adding her to your RSS feed. You’ll be… Read more
