Growing up godless

Next week I’ve been invited by the Unitarian Fellowship of Regina to give a talk on secular parenting.  Here’s the little blurb I wrote for it: Growing up godless: Strategies for the 21st century secular family A 2008 survey found that 1 in 4 Canadians don’t believe in God. Another … Continue reading

Darwin Day 2012

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — Darwin Day (February 12th), and a time for us all to celebrate SCIENCE! Here’s a list of events going on around the country (feel free to add some that I’ve missed in the comments): Friday, February 10th in Ottawa: Evolution and … Continue reading

re·ject

As it’s Oscar season, I’m busy catching all the nominees for the best picture — which means I caught the critically acclaimed ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin‘ (which I was sure was going to be nominated in some way, but wasn’t .. and that’s a subject for another post). … Continue reading

Atheist cinema, part 1: for apostates

I’m hoping to have a regular series of posts of film recommendations for atheists and nonbelievers.  Feel free to give some suggestions in the comments! A couple weeks ago Café Apostate took our usual monthly meeting to the movies, and we watched the film Higher Ground. Here’s the trailer. I … Continue reading

Three jeers for Christian charity!

In response to the American Atheists “What myths do you see?” billboards, the Catholic League just launched a new holiday campaign of their own — Adopt an Atheist: Today we are launching our “Adopt An Atheist” campaign, the predicate of which is, “We want atheists to realize that there may … Continue reading

‘Tis the Season

This holiday season, give the Salvation Army kettles a pass and give to a secular charity instead! Here are some ideas to get you started: A huge list of atheist, non-theistic, freethinking and secular charities by ThinkAtheist.com Give a microloan to someone in a developing country by joining Kiva.org’s lending … Continue reading

Secular family resources

One of the bigger shortcomings in the Canadian atheist community (in my humble opinion, of course) is the lack of resources/groups for secular families.  As far as I know, there’s only one secular parenting group in Canada (though I would LOVE to be corrected in the comments!).  That said, I … Continue reading

Happy Blasphemy Rights Day!

What heretical ways will you celebrate? In 2009, the Center for Inquiry started the Blasphemy Day event (didn’t our own Katie Kish help start it?) to commemorate the anniversary of the publishing of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons.  We all remember how well those cartoons went over, don’t we? No idea … Continue reading

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