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Some of the most interesting segments on The Daily Show are those involving authors and books that I had never...

Most people have probably heard that Rick Santorum was given a hard time by a group of college students in...

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They have started a new science section and Arianna Huffington says this of her hopes for it: I'm particularly looking...

A good indicator of how degraded the political discourse has become in government is the absurd fuss over the recess...

Many Christians who belong to the Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas on or around January 6 because they follow the older...

So I gave a talk yesterday afternoon in which I emphasized how horrible it was that women had been suppressed for thousands of years, and, on many matters, had been instructed to remain silent.  As I stated at the end of my talk, this enforced silence robbed women of their humanity, and I indicated that CFI was committed to working toward a society in which […]

There has been some discussion, including many tweets, about my talk today at Women in Secularism 2. I think some of the comments have been highly misleading. One of the principal points of my talk was the critical importance of advocacy for women’s rights, and how this advocacy was integral to CFI’s mission. This is something I emphasized at the beginning a […]

My first understanding of the moral imperative of racial integration probably came from my father. He had been a talented baseball pitcher in college (with, I’m told, an impressive all arms-and-legs delivery and a tremendous “slider” ball). I think some part of him always regretted giving up that tentative career for a sensible job and the role of family man […]

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Women in Secularism 2 kicks off today! To judge by the tweets of attendees, there is an enthusiasm for this conference that I’ve not seen for an event at least since the Reason Rally. And not for nothin’, but the WiFi in the hotel lobby is great, and […]

With yet another study released this week confirming the vast acceptance of human-caused climate change by the scientific community, it’s important to remember that acknowledgement is only the beginning. More important is the means by which to convince governments and their citizens to take the steps necessary to combat climate change. With that in mind… On […]

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Must-read: Ken Chitwood at the Houston Chronicle reports on the state of women’s equality in the skepto-atheosphere, providing background for the Women in Secularism conference (starting tomorrow!), and talking to CFI’s Melody Hensley.  (Speaking of t […]

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Persecuted Bangladeshi atheist bloggers Subrata Adhikari Shuvo and Russel Parvez are released on bail. From our Office of Public Policy, we’re on board with 70 other groups pushing to keep abortion restrictions out of the congressional appropriations […]

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Minnesota will soon be the 12th state to allow gay marriage.  CSICOP.org starts a new column by Kyle Hill on what the real-world implications would be if some paranormal claims were true. To kick off: Magnet people—how do they work?  Guys! It’s cool. […]

On last week’s very special Point of Inquiry, co-hosts Chris Mooney and Indre Viskontas teamed up to interview Pulitzer prize-winning author and UCLA professor of geography Jared Diamond. Dr. Diamond is perhaps best known for his 1997 popular science book, ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’, an expansive look at the influence of environment and technology in shaping th […]

When I attended Bigfoot School April 27 at Chautauqua Lake, New York, among the six signing my diploma was a man named Bob Gimlin, an 82-year-old horse trainer from Yakima Valley, Washington. While Gimlin’s name is largely unknown to the public, he represents something of a living legend to Bigfoot aficionados everywhere. You see, it was Gimlin who accompani […]

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THE Catholic Church and other organisations currently being investigated in Australia for sexual abuse should help pay for the massive costs of the inquiry. According to this report, the cost...

THIS evening, the BBC World Service will broadcast The Womb as a Weapon, an examination of the spread in the UK of a dotty  and dangerous trend that insists that...

SEVEN members of a sadistic Muslim paedophile ring in Oxford are to be sentenced on June 26 after they were convicted in the Old Bailey this week of of a...

IT’S NOT entirely clear whether Richard P Sheridan is a religious nutcase like the Miami woman we reported on yesterday. But everything points that way. Like Anna Pierre, the demented...

ANNA Pierre, a registered nurse who claims to be “nuts for Jesus” SOOO wanted to become mayor of North Miami, but voters decided she was just plain nuts, and yesterday...

THE man behind the refusal to let a house to a lesbian couple on the Isle of Man was today exposed as the minister at the Ramsey Independent Methodist Church....

GAGE Pulliam, of Muldrow in Oklahoma, has infuriated Christians for contacting the Freedom From Religion Foundation to complain about Ten Commandments displays posted in his high school’s classrooms. Pulliam, according...

IN JUNE 2008 Alicia Gali took a job in the UAE at a luxury hotel operated in Dubai by one of the world’s biggest hotel chains, Starwood. Gali was using...

URGING the House of Lords on Friday to support marriage equality, Lord Fowler addressed Christian concerns about gay marriage by saying: An opinion poll in this country suggested that many...

THE World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society is the title of a new research study published by the Pew Research Center  – and it makes for grim reading. The survey...