By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Professor Ryan Burge‘s website states: “I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science as well as the Graduate Coordinator at Eastern Illinois University. I teach in a variety of areas, including American institutions, political behavior, and research methods. My research focuses largely on the intersection between religiosity and political behavior (especially in… Read more »
By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — Here in Appalachia’s Bible Belt, conservatives in the Legislature want to force all West Virginia public high schools to… Read more »
— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jonathan Engel, J.D. is the President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. Here we talk about American social issues. *Interview conducted on June 15, 2020.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Today, we are going to talk about a letter to the editor of The New York Times by you. What was the instigation… Read more »
By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — I’m an atheist because honesty requires it. I was born in 1932 in a little Appalachian… Read more »
By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back, as he opens in No Qualms (Ed., published on 2018, July 18, i.e., when he was 86), “I’m quite aware… Read more »
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jacob Fortin is the Creator of Bible Stories. Here we talk about it. *Some parts of the transcript may be inaccurate.* Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, what is Bible Stories? Why did you write it? Jacob Fortin: So, for those of are those who have not heard of me, I used to run a podcast back in… Read more »