Raising Critical Thinkers
The videos from Freethought Festival are out! Currently, this video from Dale McGowan has the fewest hits, which is a shame. It’s a wonderful talk on raising–not atheists–but real freethinkers, willing...
View ArticleMorality at the Beginning of Human Life
One of the advantages of local conferences with local speakers is adding good speakers and talks as resources in our movement. (Others include decreasing boredom and avoiding holding a small group of...
View ArticleThe Language We Use
I met James Croft at Freethought Festival, and he kept tweeting at me that he was changing his talk in response to something I’d said. I have no idea whether he ended up doing any of that, but it is a...
View ArticleDiversity in the Atheist Community
This was the talk at Freethought Festival that prompted Brianne to thank Alix Jules for making her uncomfortable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FHokHg7Nc If you follow this blog, you probably...
View ArticleBased on Judeo-Christian Values, Huh?
Our own Chris Rodda does an amazing job taking down the idea that the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation at an incredibly detailed level. Andrew Seidel of the Freedom From Religion Foundation did...
View ArticleThe Gender Binary & LGBTI People – Myth and Medical Malpractice
As this posts, I’m sitting down at a panel on sex differences. This Freethought Festival talk by physiologist Veronica Drantz seemed appropriate, if not definitive....
View ArticleHow to Argue
I don’t know how JT did it, but he somehow got a hold of my argument playbook for this speech at Freethought Festival. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxGRlCawTlc Now you know all my tricks, including...
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