Congress once again has extended an incentive to seniors for charitable giving through the end of January. People age 70 ½ and older may channel up to $100,000 a year …
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Day: December 22, 2010
FFRF’s college student essay winners announced
The winners of FFRF’s 2010 Michael Hakeem Memorial Essay Competition for college students have been selected from a pool of exceptional applicants. The Foundation has awarded $5,850 in cash scholarships …
School board votes down religious charter school in Wisconsin
FFRF sent a letter to the Board of Education of the West Bend Joint School District [West Bend, Wis.] in opposition to a proposal to form the Crossroads Academy charter …
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My rejection of religious dogma: Lauren Keil
This student received $1,000 from FFRF. I suppose it is the natural inclination of a child to believe whatever he or she is taught by adults, especially when those adults …
Atheism in the face of beauty: Nick Parrott
As a rationalist, it is with no pride that I confess there was a time in my life when, while I didn’t believe in God per se, I was certainly …
Why I am agnostic: Carly Pederson
When I was 16, my mother died in her sleep. Eight years of prayers, fasting and bargaining with God had not been enough to send her illness into remission. I …
A secular to atheist conversion story
This student received a $300 scholarhsip. A lot of atheists can tell great stories about being raised in religious families, about adolescent moments of skepticism and dinner-table declarations of nonbelief. …
Which god don’t I believe in? By Ben Kegerise
I am an atheist. I do not hide it or skirt around the issue in conversation. I am not particularly outspoken, nor do I ever bring the subject up, but …
Doing good without the good book: By Meg Hourigan
There’s a lot for a godless, socialist-leaning, gay-loving, pro-choice, tree-hugging liberal arts student to be angry about these days. Cursed by a stubbornness and temper often attributed to an Irish …
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