Weekly Fellows Update by Deanna Cantrell With Pluto recently in the news, it is a great opportunity to highlight SPI Fellow Gregory BenfordÔÇÖs article The Pluto of Science Fiction.┬á Mr. Benford┬áis an astrophysicist and science fiction author┬áwho is on [...]
The results of the 2013 New Zealand Census has Christianity down to around 47 per cent.  [...]
Weekly Policy Report by Edwina Rogers Nine US Agencies Propose Regulations To Curtail Discrimination By Faith Based Organizations With Tax Payer Funds - SPI Comments Melissa Rogers, the Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships [...]
Weekly Numbers Report by Deanna Cantrell SPI is asking the U.S. Department of Health & Human services to implement a nationwide vaccination policy.  This would repeal non-medical philosophical and religious exemptions that are currently available in 48 states.  Are [...]
President Obama will phone the Army veteran who tried to save lives during the mass shooting on an Oregon college campus, according to a new report. Obama will speak to Chris Mintz, 30, on either Tuesday or Wednesday, according to [...]
Nearly 100 people rallied outside the Nigerian High Commission in London on 30 September. [...]
There are many reasons why skeptics might find fault with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, along with 169 associated targets, which the leaders of the world (including the pope) will adopt, with some fanfare, in New York this week. One problem, [...]
Weekly Coalition Update by Deanna Cantrell SPI would like to mention Coalition The Evolution Institute, especially Jerry Lieberman who was featured alongside SPI Fellow David Sloan Wilson last week at the panel on Evolution in Oslo, Norway.  Unable to [...]
Weekly Fellows Update by Deanna Cantrell Check in with SPI Fellow James Doty who was featured in an edcast 10 Minute Insight Series this week.┬á Also, of note, Doty recently released a book titled Into the Magic Shop: A NeurosurgeonÔÇÖs [...]
To hand a church money on the premise to perform a service, but to do so without imparting their faith-based initiative is like taking your pet goldfish out of its bowl and commanding it breathe room air.┬á To the goldfishÔÇÖs [...]
