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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Do you recognize the name yet? Dale is the author of the Parenting Beyond Belief, the book that contains a couple of my articles.
I am getting ready to interview him and I thought I’d see if any of you have questions you want me to ask him. If you do you’ll [...]
I’ve been looking forward to this week for a long time.
Today I am going to add an additional activity to what we did last year. I’m still working it out in my brain but I think I am going to explore color with the kids as a metaphor for how all of life is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I cannot wait to read this new book, which Panda’s Thumb brought to my attention:
INTELLIGENT THOUGHT: SCIENCE VERSUS THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN MOVEMENT is a compilation of articles by some of our favorite scientists.
In the Editor’s Note is a copy of an email he received which should be “a stark reminder of why this [...]
You’ve heard of Supply-Side Economics? How about Supply Side Religion? Let me explain.
In a comment on AgnosticMom, Hifi posted a link to an article from the Humanist Network News with the title, “Church of England Report: Youth No Longer Need Supernatural Props.”
While the topic of the article is worthy of our [...]
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