‘What If My Kid Becomes a Fundamentalist?’
Are you an open-minded secular parent who privately worries that your child will someday become religious? You’re not alone. Some months ago, I was on a podcast talking about how children are better...
View ArticleNatural Wonderers Hits the Road
If you’re on Facebook or The Twitter, please be sure to keep in touch with me this weekend, as I hit the road for two speaking engagements in Connecticut. First, I’ll be speaking Saturday at the...
View Article8 Things Kids Can Say to Dispel Religious Bullying By Aunties in Ice Cream Shops
Hemant Mehta over at Friendly Atheist has written about a rather shocking situation in which an atheist dad allegedly caught his Christian sister using a trip to get ice cream to proselytize to his two...
View ArticleFreethinking Kids’ Camp Celebrates 20th Year with Sellout Crowds
Summer’s coming, and you know what that means. Kids. Kids at home. Kids at home ALL… DAY… LONG. No offense, little ones, but thanks be to the proverbial Lord for summer camps. And thanks be to the...
View ArticleNeed to Explain Evolution to a 3-Year-old? No Problem!
This weekend, my genius sister introduced me to Grandmother Fish: A Child’s First Book of Evolution. The book was self-published in September but has received so much great press (on NPR, among other...
View ArticleQ&A: Author of ‘Grace Without God’ Talks Grief, Morality & the Wisdom of...
A few years ago, Boston Magazine writer Katherine Ozment wrote a piece called “Losing Our Religion,” a story about the effect that the rising population of Nones were having on the next generation. It...
View ArticleReligious Parent, Secular Child: What We Can Learn From Immigrant Families
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared in Mary 2012. I was quoted in the New York Times Magazine’s Sixth Floor Blog a couple of weeks ago, which, admittedly, is not the same as being quoted in the New...
View ArticleChurch Is Fun! (Or Is It?)
Many years ago, I interviewed Dale McGowan, the director of growth and engagement here at Patheos and the editor/author of Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion and...
View ArticleHow to Become an Ambassador for Your (Nonreligious) Worldview
Is it just me or does it seem, sometimes, that nonbelievers are more “tolerant” of people’s cultural beliefs than they are of people’s religious beliefs? Maybe that’s because culture implies something...
View ArticleQ&A: Author of ‘Grandmother Fish’ Shares His Eureka Moment When Writing...
As my legions (read: dozens) of loyal readers will no doubt recall, I recently reviewed a children’s book called Grandmother Fish: A Child’s First Book of Evolution by Jonathan Tweet (illustrated by...
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