On October 18, I gave an address to the Northern Virginia Ethical Society on the subject of the New Atheism and the divides within the atheist...
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I spoke with Mynga Futrell, co-founder and director of the Brights movement, at the Atheist Alliance International 2009 convention, and she talked...
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How can young atheists be made to feel like they have a community of like-minded fellows? How can sympathetic folks who aren't in college anymore help...
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The Atheist Alliance International 2009 convention was over, but the best was yet to come. After a perfunctory "closing ceremony," two...
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At the Atheist Alliance International Convention in Burbank, California Friday night, Sean Faircloth, executive director of the Secular Coalition for...
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Every couple of days now, it seems some columnist or public thinker decides to cast their lot with the anti-New Atheist crowd. It's sadly quite...
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I know I’m a little late to the party on this, but I wanted to share some thoughts about a controversy that recently took place at the...
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The Los Angeles Times editorial page comes down, somewhat half-heartedly, on the side of the separation of church and state. Treading warily into the...
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If you troll the usual stomping grounds of atheistic bloggery, you have probably already come across Byron McCane's op-ed in The State heralding the...
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