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Archive for April, 2007

Let The Magazine Editors Know What You Want

Posted: Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 @ 9:27 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Books, Children, Family, Pollution, Secular | 19 Comments »

Some of you wanted to know which publications are refusing to run reviews of Parenting Beyond Belief. I contacted Dale McGowan and he responded that the publisher will not specify which ones actually refused and which ones just haven’t answered. Naturally, there are relationships to maintain and that is understandable.
That doesn’t mean we [...]

Will Our Children Be Clompliant Atheists Or Independent Thinkers?

Posted: Friday, April 20th, 2007 @ 7:04 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Children, Parenting, Secular | 7 Comments »

Some days my seven-year-old daughter believes there is a god. Hers is a god of lost pencils and favorite foods. On other days, when said god doesn’t come through to grant a wish, she announces, “I guess I don’t believe in god anymore.”
To read more, follow the link to this week’s article in the Humanist [...]

Parenting Beyond Belief, The New Secular Parenting Book, Is Now Available

Posted: Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 @ 11:30 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Children, Family, Parenting, Secular | 21 Comments »

The author, Dale McGowan, sent this update to those us who contributed articles to Parenting Beyond Belief:
Several parenting magazines are declining to review the book for fear of offending religious subscribers, and a few retailers are declining to stock the book, claiming there is no market for it. It is essential that we demonstrate [...]