Open Forum Friday: There’s a boy in the girls’ room!

Remember this book? It didn’t have anything to do with transgenderism, but it was the first image to come up when I typed “boy in the girl’s room” into Google Image Search.

This Week’s Topic
This is a topic that should have been covered more by us and by local human rights organizations. I only [...]

FFW’s January 2010 Meeting. Officer Elections 2010!

[ January 13, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Officer Elections for 2010! It is time to reflect and vote on the leadership and direction of the group.

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 [...]

The Enlightenment Show Marathon

[ November 29, 2009; 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. ] Tomorrow, Sunday November 29 Fort Wayne Access is running all of our Enlightenment Show episodes including Dial-an-Atheist.  That’s right if you tune in tomorrow on Comcast Channel 57, or Verizon Fios channel 27 you will see one of our programs!  It starts at 7:00AM and runs till 7:00 PM.  Wow, A year and a half [...]

FreeThought Fort Wayne’s December Meeting

[ December 9, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] FreeThought Fort Wayne’s next meeting is coming up December, 9th at 7 PM. As usual, we’re meeting at the main branch of the ACPL in MEETING ROOM_B

FreeThought Fort Wayne’s August 12 Meeting

[ August 12, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] FreeThought Fort Wayne’s next meeting is coming up August 12. As usual, we’re meeting at the main branch of the ACPL in Meeting Room B.

Open Forum Friday: Can a group do nothing?

I know the title sounds strange but hear me out.
Let me start with a hypothetical scenario. Let’s say that there is a group loosely based around a set of common interests. Each individual member’s interests roughly overlap with each other. Each member focuses on one aspect more than the other and each member varies in [...]

Unchurched No Longer?

On the first Sunday of this month, I attended services at our local Unitarian Universalist Congregation.  I “went to church,” if you like.
However, calling the UU a “church” is a bit like calling Fresh Market a “restaurant.”  They don’t presume to feed you a fully prepared meal of one exclusive flavor of religious doctrine; rather, [...]

The City of Churches hunts Ghosts and Ghouls!

Whatzup!!! “Hunting Ghosts and Ghouls by Deborah Kennedy.” It looks like Fort Wayne is the next site for the national ghost and paranormal seminar called “Paranormacon.”

Fort Wayne highschoolers sound off about evolution/creationism

Michael B. just pointed me to a recent article in today’s Journal Gazette called, rather obliquely headlined, “Species of education: Evolution teaching, beliefs vary for two local students“.
Reporter Jaclyn Youhana talked with two local students about how they felt about their evolutionary science education in high school. Because Indiana Department of Education rightly says that [...]