By Ian Bushfield — This past weekend while we enjoyed sunny blue skies in Vancouver, 20,000 atheists, humanists, and freethinkers gathered in Washington, DC for a rainy Reason Rally. The speaker’s list was a veritable who’s who of the New Atheist movement, with Richard Dawkins, Tim Minchin, and Adam Savage taking the stage. But what interests… Read more »
Kristina Keneally’s article, “When I First Heard Tim Minchin’s Song about Cardinal Pell, I Laughed. Then I Started Crying,” is pathetic, but Keneally deserves criticism not sympathy. Keneally describes herself as a Catholic and a public critic of Cardinal Pell and the Catholic church on its handling of cases of child sexual abuse. I’ve expressed… Read more »
Tim Minchen risks angering the Roman Catholic Church and prominent Australian cardinal George Pell with his latest charity single “Come Home (Cardinal Pell).” Minchin has pledged that the proceeds from the controversial song’s sale will go to the gofundme page set up to help clerical abuse victims fly to Rome to front Cardinal Pell in… Read more »
The Guardian recently hosted a Q & A session with Tim Minchin, the Australian musician, comedian and “affirmed atheist”. In the transcript Minchin has some interesting things to say and comes across more or less the way he does in his performances, or at least the ones that I’ve seen on video – intelligent, quirky,… Read more »