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My Overdue Announcement That I Am Taking The Summer Off

Posted: Monday, July 23rd, 2007 @ 4:27 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Blog | 9 Comments »

Ummm, yeah, summer is approaching its end, isn’t it?
My husband and I began putting major efforts into some other projects earlier in the year. For a while I’ve been unsure what to do about AgnosticMom because I love this blog, but it’s hard to do something well when your attention is split.
Once summer came, [...]

Interview of Dale McGowan and AgnosticMom tonight on Motherhood Uncensored

Posted: Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 @ 1:42 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Blog, Children, Parenting, Talk Radio | 6 Comments »

Kristen Chase of Motherhood Uncensored will be interviewing Dale and I regarding the book, Parenting Beyond Belief, tonight. Follow the link to the interview site.
Our interview starts at 9:30 EST, but the actual show starts at 9pm with an interview of Julie from Mothergoosemouse. Julie is an atheist and some [...]

Let The Magazine Editors Know What You Want

Posted: Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 @ 9:27 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Books, Children, Family, Pollution, Secular | 18 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 | 5 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 | 19 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 [...]

Much Of Our Morality Lies In The Brain

Posted: Sunday, March 25th, 2007 @ 7:19 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Ethics, Evolution, Mortality, News, Religion, Science, Social | 12 Comments »

If you’ve been reading AgnosticMom for a long time then you know about my position on morality and ethics. While most religious people think morality comes from their god and some non-believers think it is purely a social construct, others of us (including myself) believe that humans have an innate moral sense which is [...]

When The Symphony Stops Playing

Posted: Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 @ 9:32 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Death, Mortality, Secular | 2 Comments »

My article on death and the soul (or lack thereof) is in today’s issue of the Humanist Network News. As you can see, I used Dale’s symphony analogy (and quoted him, giving him proper credit) for the title.
Thanks for all your thoughts on the last two posts! They were amazing to [...]

A Question About The Soul

Posted: Friday, March 9th, 2007 @ 9:50 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Death, Mortality | 68 Comments »

This topic and all the comments it generated in the last post has been fascinating. I am writing next week’s HNN article about it right now. I’ve grown curious to know how many of you believe in the continued existence of the soul after death. Even more than that I wonder if [...]

Regarding The Soul

Posted: Monday, March 5th, 2007 @ 7:07 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Evolution, Science | 52 Comments »

There was a request that I ask Dale McGowan in his interview if he believes we have a soul, and if so, where it goes when we die. The question didn’t really fit with the others so I am posting his answer here in a new post.
The concept no longer makes sense in light [...]

Interview With Dale McGowen, Author of Parenting Beyond Belief

Posted: Thursday, March 1st, 2007 @ 5:51 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Books, Family, Parenting, Secular | 12 Comments »

DALE MCGOWAN is a writer, editor, and critical thinking educator in Minneapolis. His satirical novel Calling Bernadette’s Bluff has been called “an undoubted triumph of satire” and “wicked funny.” He recently completed Northing at Midlife, a humorous narrative of a midlife crisis encountered on the trails of Britain. McGowan is editor of Rumors of Peace, [...]