New Event – Lunch Group

This coming Tuesday 12/15 at 1 p.m. will be the first ever lunch meetup for FreeThought Fort Wayne at the Dash-In, 814 S. Calhoun St. (Click here for a map)
This is the first event of its kind, but hopefully we will be scheduling these on a regular basis.
The Dash-In also has a page on facebook [...]

UPDATE: Uganda, Maddow, and Praying Away the Gay

MSNBC has done a great public service by letting the people at the Rachel Maddow Show practice actual journalism.
This video is important because it shows just how dangerous pseudoscience (or in layman’s terms, outright quackery) really is. Richard Cohen has written a book that has had the effect of igniting an attempted genocide of gays, [...]

Keep Watching the Skies

In case you’ve missed it, 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. In keeping with the FFW promotion of science, I have a couple inspiring news items.
Recently, a 14-year-old girl discovered a supernova. She is the youngest person ever to do so. I thought that it was cool to see someone so excited about discovery [...]

Decoding Near-Death Experiences

NPR has been doing a series on the science of spirituality. I’ve only caught a couple of the broadcasts, but I found the final installment completely engrossing. [Mental note: renew NPR membership] I find the concept of this series incredibly fascinating, but there have to be a few caveats.
Barbara Bradley Hagerty, the series correspondent, grew [...]

What’s for Dinner

levitating apples

I am a human, and I am an omnivore. I eat both plants and animals. Recently, some of the other FFW bloggers and I were discussing the ethics of eating animals, so I thought I would tackle this in one of my increasingly rare blog posts. Let me start by saying that I am [...]

Coffee Klatch This Sunday, April 19

[ April 19, 2009; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] We will be having a coffee klatch this Sunday @the Firefly coffeehouse on North Anthony. We will begin assembling around 10 a.m. Hope to see you there!

The News-Sentinel Wants to Know If You’re a Christian

I just happened across this poll on my check of local news. It looks like the readers of the NS are about 12% non-believers. I don’t know how long the poll will be open, but feel free to vote. It’d be interesting to see if our little site can skew their results.
Guess how I voted.

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Youth Group in Washington State Recruiting in Public Schools

This story is a must read. Schools have been inviting church workers into lunchrooms in rural Washington help increase the adult presence in schools, with the theory that it will help curb classroom disruptions. The school district got much more than it bargained for.
It all started going horribly awry when the youth ministers started soliciting [...]

Civics in the 21st Century

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was on the Daily Show last night. She is launching her new site, www.ourcourts.org.
The site is designed to be an informative first-line resource for teachers and students to learn more about government, especially how courts work. I’ve only been poking around on the site for a few minutes, but already [...]

Just for Fun, Humanist Bus Slogan Generator

Bus Slogan Generator

I found this link on the net to a bus slogan generator. This is based on the British Humanist Association buses that stirred up all that controversy. I thought FFW readers would get a kick out of it so I posted it here.
On a related note, Friendly Atheist posted about the [...]