Freethought-Now Our work at the Freedom From Religion Foundation seems to be catching the attention of our adversaries and allies alike. An official at a health care sharing ministry umbrella group wrote a piece on the hard-right Townhall site accusing us of irrational prejudice toward such health care entities. (Not at all: Here’s one very persuasively rational critique we…

Freethought-Now There can be no better feeling for us at the Freedom From Religion Foundation than our message finding a large target audience — and there’s been a lot of that happening over the past few days.  NPR ran on its website an Associated Press story mentioning us. “A U.S. appeals court has cleared the…

Freethought-Now On Feb. 6, I participated in a debate at Restoration Church in Rowland, Texas, on the topic “Does the God of the Bible Exist?” against Christian philosopher Elias Ayala. The debate was part of a weekend conference sponsored by “The Gospel Truth.” This was my 10-minute Opening Statement. OPENING STATEMENT BY DAN BARKER On…

I remember when the terms “crunchy” and “granola” had primarily liberal connotations. Marked by a concern for the environment, the quality of the food we were consuming and the educational value of children’s books and free play outside, until recently it was always something I associated with hippies and left-leaning people. My own parents were…

We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation are sometimes amazed at how the word gets out about our endeavors. The National Center for Science Education noticed an important initiative from our legislative arm.  “A model state bill to safeguard the religious neutrality of public education is making headway across the country — and evolution education in particular…

A recent Wyoming Supreme Court ruling demonstrates how unique state constitutional provisions can be used to combat Christian nationalism. In the case, abortion advocates successfully argued that state laws enacted a few years ago criminalizing abortion and banning the prescription and use of abortion medication were unconstitutional under the right to make health care decisions…

Nothing thrills us more at the Freedom From Religion Foundation than folks paying attention to our strivings on behalf of the secular U.S. Constitution — and this week has brought us plenty. “A consortium of civil rights and anti-state religion advocacy groups is calling on the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board to reject at its…

In honor of Black History Month, below are highlights of some of the many distinguished Black freethinkers, past and present, who have made known their dissent from religion. For more information, see FFRF’s Freethought of the Day series. NORMAN ALLEN JR. Allen founded African Americans for Humanism in 1989 and served as its director until…

Our workplace at the Freedom From Religion Foundation has been a hotbed of activity notwithstanding the frigid temperatures outside. Our legal coalition-building generated a good amount of heat. “Knox County taxpayers are asking a judge to allow them to join a lawsuit to oppose a Christian nonprofit that wants to open a religious charter school…

FFRF Lifetime Member Barbara G. Walker — a prominent feminist and freethinker — died at the age of 95 late last month. Barbara was the notable author of the monumental “The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets” (1983), known to almost all feminists of that era, whose goal was to trace the “transition from female-oriented…