Monthly Archives: August 2019

Interview with Secular Community Member at Baylor University

by | August 29, 2019

— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Here we talk with a secular community member of Baylor University. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Looking at the landscape of the secular university life at Baylor University, what is the secular/religious status of Baylor University – its foundation and founding culture as a university, and its development over time into the present? … Read more »

James Baldwin: Brilliant Skeptic

by | August 29, 2019

— By James Haught (Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. This article first appeared in Free Inquiry, Fall 2000.) Here’s an interesting literary footnote: James Baldwin, arguably America’s greatest black writer, was a popular Pentecostal preacher in Harlem at age 14 — but at 17 he renounced… Read more »

Ask Herb 14 – Secular Malcontents

by | August 15, 2019

— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Herb Silverman is the Founder of the Secular Coalition of America, the Founder of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, and the Founder of the Atheist/Humanist Alliance student group at the College of Charleston. Here we talk about secular issues in secular communities. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Secular communities, and community members… Read more »

Ask Shingai 2 – Political Strife and Religious Consolation

by | August 15, 2019

— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Interview with Shingai Rukwata Ndoro is the Interim Chairperson of the Humanist Society of Zimbabwe. We will explore the nature of theism and non-theism, and so on, in the context of Zimbabwe for this educational series. Here we talk about the positives of religion, the negatives of religion, and political influence of… Read more »