Agnostic Mom

Raising a Healthy Family Without Religion.

Archive for January, 2007

AgnosticMom Interviewed On HNN

Posted: Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 @ 9:41 pm in Agnostic, Atheist | 5 Comments »

Would you be interested in hearing my first ever interview? This month’s HNN podcast revolved mostly around Darwin Day, but other topics as well. My interview is somewhere in the middle (segment 3) of podcast #15. Go take a listen and come back with any thoughts you have.

How To Have A Week-Long Darwin Week To Your Children

Posted: Thursday, January 25th, 2007 @ 8:08 am in Evolution, Family, Holidays, Humanism, Parenting | 4 Comments »

This article released yesterday on the Humanist Network News. If you are looking to celebrate Charles Darwin’s world-changing theories with your children, you can see how my family has done it by clicking here.
I have some ideas of activities I hope to add this year. I’ll be sure to post them to the [...]

Parenting Beyond Belief

Posted: Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 @ 6:11 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Children, Parenting, Secular | 6 Comments »

The book (the one I contributed to) now has a website. I am so excited to get my hands on this thing. Having just read exerpts of some of the other articles, I realized it’ll be even more amazing than I expected. There is some good stuff in there! Please go [...]

Agnostic Mom Worships A Sun God?

Posted: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 @ 3:41 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Health, Religion, Yoga | 12 Comments »

According to a new reader, Rob Smith, I do. When people don’t have good arguments they have to dig really deep to come up with something, even if it is ignorant and nonsensical. Here is an example:
Very interesting that although you claim to be agnostic you practice yoga. You would think that such [...]

It’s Coming! Darwin Day Is Coming!

Posted: Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 @ 6:16 pm in Evolution, Family, Holidays, Parenting, Science | 4 Comments »

It’s less than a month away. Are you ready?
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out my article in the Humanist Network News. Normally I only contribute one article a month, but this month I will have a second article in HNN. This week’s article is a general description of [...]

In Honor Of Martin Luther King Day…

Posted: Monday, January 15th, 2007 @ 9:07 am in Community, Ethics, History, Morals | 7 Comments »

I am reposting a related article I first wrote here, that later appeared on www.clubmom.com.

America In Decline?
During a recent airing, talk show host Dennis Prager spoke to a man who apologized to his son for “giving a worse America to you than my father gave to me.”
A worse America? This wasn’t a new concept [...]

AgnosticMom Milestone

Posted: Sunday, January 14th, 2007 @ 10:14 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Blog | 5 Comments »

Some of you may remember that a while back I mentioned that this blog gets about 100 readers per day. We get to add another zero to that number! So far today there have been 1,015 visitors! In a bit of astonishment and a whole lot of skepticism, my husband and I [...]

An Update On My Possessed Website

Posted: Saturday, January 13th, 2007 @ 9:47 am in Blog | 4 Comments »

A comment from Jason, who is so good at bringing us some humor:
Just when you thought it was safe to get used to the green layout…
Just when you thought red flowers were so last year…
Just when you thought it wasn’t posh for Ag’s and Athee’s to embrace change…
The Original Layout Returns…

I missed the [...]

Coming Out Of The Closet As Atheist or Agnostic

Posted: Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 @ 9:17 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Blog, Family, Social | 25 Comments »

A lot of you have asked me to address the topic of social interaction as a non-believer. Let me start with the topic of “coming out” to those who always knew us as a religious church-goer; to those who are likely to see major changes in us and wonder why. We can talk [...]

My Secret Has Something To Do With Dale McOwen’s New Book, “Parenting Beyond Belief.”

Posted: Monday, January 1st, 2007 @ 11:46 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Children, Family, Humanism, Parenting | 18 Comments »

There’s some exciting news in and of itself: a book on secular parenting. It has articles by many we enjoy. Richard Dawkins, Julia Sweeney, Penne Jillette.
Oh, and two articles by Agnostic Mom! And there’s my secret. This book, to be released in April, will feature two of my [...]