By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Joyce Arthur is the Founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada. She has been an abortion rights and pro-choice activist since 1998. Arthur worked for 10 years running the Pro-Choice Action Network. In addition to these accomplishments, she founded FIRST or the first national feminist group advocating for… Read more »
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I know many of you have been waiting for this, and very concerned that pandemic would prevent it from happening. Well, worry no more: it’s award season again, and that means the 5th annual Canadian Atheist awards are just around the corner!
By James Haught In an 1820 letter to Portuguese scholar Correa de Serra, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Priests of the different religious sects… dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.” Jefferson saw the clash between religion and science clearly. Ever since his day, science has achieved astounding benefits for humanity, while… Read more »
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This week’s Update is extra large, because I took the last two weeks off (where the Updates would have fallen on Christmas day, and New Year’s day).
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jonathan Engel, J.D. is the former President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York and a still a board member. Here we talk about the positive impacts of assertive government interventions and social consciousness improving conditions for all, for a sense of normalcy – even blues music(!). *Interview conducted October 11, 2021.* Scott… Read more »
By James Haught For years, I was personal friends with Carl Sagan’s sister, Cari Greene, who lived in my town of Charleston, West Virginia. The astronomer dedicated one of his final books to her. I almost felt like part of the great researcher-television host’s extended family. Sagan, the world’s best-known scientist in the late 20th… Read more »