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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Empathy Neurons?

Posted: Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 @ 1:16 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Ethics, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science | 6 Comments »

They’re sometimes called Mirror Neurons, or Monkey-See-Monkey-Do Neurons. According to a neuroscientist I am watching at a science convention right now (watching the video, anyway), there is a subset of neurons that fire when, for example, we get poked with a needle. What we now know is that these same neurons will also [...]

Developing Empathy in Children for a Moral and Ethical Foundation

Posted: Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 @ 5:41 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Ethics, Morals, Parenting | 4 Comments »

My article is up on the Humanist Network News! Click here to read it.
In fact, the article may relate in some way to a comment/question that Angel posted last week. Angel: If you are still here, the article I linked to may interest you. I do plan to address your specific [...]

Atheist Delusion

Posted: Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 @ 7:25 pm in Atheist, Belief, Fundamentalism, Religion, Science | 8 Comments »

Two points of business.
Number one is to answer a question from MomSquared: I am curious whether the name Trinity is religious in origin or not?
The origin of Trinity’s name happens to be the movie, The Matrix. That’s it. We were Mormons when we chose that name and Mormons reject the concept of the [...]

Someone Taught My Kid About God

Posted: Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 @ 6:29 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Children, Family, Parenting, Religion | 9 Comments »

Actually, that was orginally me.
This post is to answer a question from Jennifer:
I know this question was already raised, but I don’t think answered, who teaches your daughter about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit? (I’m agnostic, just wondering).
I know I have forgotten to answer a lot of questions. If I passed you [...]

Famous Atheists

Posted: Saturday, November 18th, 2006 @ 12:55 pm in Atheist, Religion | 8 Comments »

If you didn’t view last Wednesday’s issue of the Humanist Network News, you may not have seen this You Tube video on atheists yet. Check it out.