Tag Archives: Ask Rob

Ask Rob 8 – A More Rounded Circle: Communities Become More Inclusive, Values Better Approximate Universalization

by | November 22, 2019
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— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Rob Boston is the Editor of Church & State (Americans United for Separation of Church and State). Here we talk about secular and freethought communities, the American story. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What defined communities of secularism and the values of freethought in earlier periods of the American story? What define the communities of secularism… Read more »

Ask Rob 7 – Sunlight from the Cycles, or, How to Rebuild Communities with a Hammer

by | October 18, 2019
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— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Rob Boston is the Editor of Church & State (Americans United for Separation of Church and State). Here we talk about passing the baton. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: As times move forward from the origins of the modern secular communities and movements, the founders and the lights continue to leave us, as the ineluctable dark… Read more »

Ask Rob 6 – Evil in Action and in Inaction, Choose Wisely: Secular History Rediscovered

by | June 27, 2019
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— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Rob Boston is the Editor of Church & State (Americans United for Separation of Church and State). Here we talk about legal training, human rights, and more. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: If ordinary citizens want to learn about the history of grassroots work for the improvement of conditions in their locale, where should they start?… Read more »

Ask Rob 2 – Freethought Can Be Free

by | April 29, 2019
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By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Rob Boston is the Editor of Church & State (Americans United for Separation of Church and State). Here we talk about the costs of freethought. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What costs in history have come with freethought in print? Rob Boston: In the 19th century and into the 20th, publishers of freethought periodicals and… Read more »