Refusing to shut up and believe Anvita received $400 for her essay. By Anvita Patwardhan One day in class as we were discussing the afterlife and salvation, I asked my …
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national state/church watchdog, has contacted Skiatook Public Schools, Okla., to protest several state/church violations reported by a district family. Among the allegations: District schools …
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“The Vanishing Wall Separating Church and State” ERWIN CHEMERINSKY is the founding dean of the University of California-Irvine School of Law and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, with a …
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‘What is Wrong with Extreme Religious Liberty’ MARCI HAMILTON is a leading state/church scholar who holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, …
DONALD C. JOHANSON is an internationally known paleoanthropologist who discovered the fossil of a female hominid australopithecine known as “Lucy” in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974. He …
SEAN CARROLL is a theoretical physicist with the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He earned his undergraduate degree from Villanova University and his P.D in Astrophysics from …
“The View from Under the Bus” SUSAN GALLOWAY is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked most of her career in long-term care, specifically with people …
Amanda Novotny is president of Siouxland Freethinkers, East River media representative for the South Dakota Coalition of Reason and treasurer of the Brookings Freethinkers. She became an active, vocal atheist …
FFRF member Dan Courtney, for his historic invocation before the town board in Greece, N.Y., site of the prayer litigation resulting in this year’s unfortunate Supreme Court decision. …
