USA & Canada

It’s a tragic story, but there’s a glimmer of hope in it. Christine Judd was the dean of students and athletic director at Cathedral High School in Springfield, Massachusetts. She married her female partner over the summer. So the Roman Catholic Diocese forced her to resign. Christine Judd told the diocese this week she had [...]

Yesterday, I mentioned that Oklahoma City got a brand new atheist billboard thanks to their local Coalition of Reason: Why put it up? Reaching out to the like-minded isn’t the only goal of the effort. “We also want Oklahomans to know that there are many humanists, agnostics and atheists living here, contributing to the community,” [...]

It’s not as bad as Jesus Camp, but seriously, talk about brainwashing children? Click on the image for the full video… How long can you watch before you have to turn it off…? (via The Freethinker) … ***Update***: My friend Matt Kane discovered a nice little hidden message at the 0:38 mark… Booby!

(via Joe. My. God.) Random story from the classroom: A couple years ago, I taught a remedial math class where some of the boys would draw penises on everything (maybe because Superbad had come out not long before…). It was very disturbing. I talked to them, their counselors, their parents. Nothing seemed to help. Anyway, [...]

Jennifer Hancock is the former executive director for the Humanists of Florida Association. She now writes a blog called Happiness Through Humanism and just released a book called The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Practical Wisdom: [This] is a book that basically says — here are personal ethics, here is why they are important, and here [...]

The Oklahoma City Coalition of Reason has formed and they have put up a billboard of their own! The board faces south and is on the corner of I-44 and NW 10th. It’s an interesting phrasing on the billboard and I wonder if it might be slightly off-putting to anyone who takes it literally — [...]

Note: Letter writers’ names are changed to protect their privacy. Hi Richard, I have two children, 3 and 7 years old. I recently had an acquaintance tell me “if you don’t give them something, they will look for anything” as it related to my lack of religion. I am confused and concerned by this statement [...]

While we’re on the topic of being outspoken, here’s an interesting story from Dale McGowan. His high-school-age son, Connor, had a bit of a disappointing start to the school year in his science class… He had enrolled for physical science and was looking forward to it, thinking it was physics. Turns out it’s actually basic [...]