CPAC Presence - The Secular Policy Institute has a very prominently located booth at CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) in DC February 25 to 28. All Republican Presidential hopeful will attend. This is the largest gathering of conservatives, tea party, [...]
by Greg Paul, SPI Advocate This article is reprinted with permission from Vol. 19 No. 3 of Skeptic Magazine, the world's best source on skeptic news and leading thought. Fight Bigfoot. Subscribe to Skeptic Magazine. The Washington Post mentioned Greg [...]
The weekly report on research and polls by Greg J. Neimeyer, Ph.D Researchers have found that idle periods of cognitive "down" time- when our minds are "blank" and we are thinking of nothing in particular may, in fact, be particularly [...]
The weekly update on the Secular Policy InstituteÔÇÖs Fellows by┬áMadeline┬áSchussel SPI Fellow Mark Juergensmeyer is a Professor of Sociology and Director of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He won the Grawemeyer Award for his [...]
One third of under-24s describe themselves as atheists, according to a new poll which offers more evidence for a "generational shift" away from religious belief. The YouGov/Times poll found that 42% of adults in the UK said they had no [...]
Often, the U.S. Supreme Court considers only one religion-related case each year. But 2015 could shape up to be a particularly active and influential year when it comes to religious liberties issues. Last week, the Supreme Court handed down an [...]
The weekly update on the Secular Policy Institute's coalition by Johnny Monsarrat This week, the SPI Coalition leaped to 233 members, with the biggest news being the growth of national and international groups. We now have 39 VIP groups, and [...]
Tomorrow is the birthday of Charles Darwin, so itÔÇÖs a good time to ask the blasphemous question: Who cares about Darwin? More precisely: Who cares about what Darwin wrote? Charles DarwinÔÇÖs On the Origin of Species revolutionized biology. In the [...]
The weekly report on the Secular Policy Institute's Coalition by Johnny Monsarrat This week we've been adding coalition members so quickly that we haven't even had time to post them all and reformat our coalition page. Less than a month [...]
It took one session on Jan. 10 for a court in the Nile Delta province of Beheira to sentence Karim al-Banna, a 21-year-old student, to three years in prison for saying on Facebook that he was an atheist. The studentÔÇÖs [...]
