Author: Adam Lee

Last week, after the shooting in their lobby that wounded a security guard, the right-wing Family Research Council immediately blamed their listing by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group – as if that label, rather than the actions they took to earn it, was the only possible reason a disturbed and unstable…

If you’re not already, you should be reading Surly Amy‘s ongoing post series asking men who are leaders in the atheist movement to speak out against the sexist hate and hostility that we’ve lately been spending so much time battling. It’s a brilliant idea, and she’s already garnered statements from an impressive array of men…

Over the weekend, JT linked to this post on Patheos by Ben Witherington, an evangelical Bible scholar, opining about the legal basis for separation of church and state in America. But what about those founding documents— the Declaration, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. Didn’t they set up a secular society for America? Didn’t they…

Editor’s Note: Please welcome Korey Peters, who’s written a guest post about an atheist organization he’s founded that he’s calling the Calgary Secular Church. In this post, he’ll explain what motivated him to do it and what he’s hoping to achieve. My name is Korey Peters, and I’m one of the founding members of the…

In 2011, I wrote “Pro-Family Christians Support Child Kidnapping“, one of the more despicable stories of how the religious right despises and mistreats GLBT people (and that’s really saying something). There have been more developments in that case, so here’s an update. The story up till now: Lisa Miller, a Vermont woman in a same-sex…

For those of you who don’t have an e-reader (a category which, I have to admit, includes myself), or who just prefer something more tangible, here’s some hopefully welcome news: Daylight Atheism, The Book is now available in paperback through Amazon CreateSpace! Here’s the link. If you’re interested in an autographed copy, leave a comment…

The WIN-Gallup International network of polling firms has released a new poll titled Global Index of Religion and Atheism 2012, and there’s a lot of good news in it for us. Some of these results are so encouraging, I hesitate to believe them without additional confirmation – but if they bear out, they show that…

There’s a lot of news this week: • Two examples of humanism in action: Charles Feeney, a billionaire philanthropist, plans to give away all his remaining money within a few years, and a new nonprofit helps to crowdfund DNA sequencing for children with rare genetic diseases. • Since we still have a lot of work…

Just as a reminder: The last week of this month, I’m taking a trip to London and Edinburgh. If you live around there and are interested in meeting me, come on out! I’m arriving in London on the morning of Saturday, August 25, and we’re tentatively planning a meetup that night. On Wednesday, August 29,…

Back in May, I reviewed Steven Pinker’s hugely ambitious new book The Better Angels of Our Nature, about the decline of violence through history. I couldn’t do justice to all the ideas in this book with a single post, so I promised to return to it and write about Pinker’s argument in more detail. It’s…