Archive for the 'Family' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 @ 5:37 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Family, Humanism, Secular | 16 Comments »
Make sure you head over to read the article I wrote about my sister-in-law’s humanist wedding! What a cool experience that was! Come back and share any thoughts you have by leaving a comment. I’m really curious to know if any of you have ever attended one.
Posted: Monday, February 12th, 2007 @ 9:29 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Books, Children, Education, Evolution, Family, Holidays, Humanism, Parenting | 9 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 @ 9:17 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Blog, Family, Social | 24 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]