Podcast appearances and mentions of dale mcgowan

This episode contains: Steven, Ben and Devon are all here and accounted for. Steven is trying to not be a bump on a log and is attempting to use his Fitness+ plan to get fit. We get sidetracked by talking about the "runner's high" but don't get too far into it. Ben had a birthday! Happy Birthday Ben! He watched Inside Out 2 and we all give our opinions on the movie. Devon has been playing piano and talks about the Simply Piano app.  Of note: Ben doesn't discriminate with music. Also, the renowned athiest Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" and it isn't quite used as intended. https://marathonhandbook.com/is-runners-high-real/  https://www.hellosimply.com/simply-piano    Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn't Stop To Think If They Should: llama.tif is a font file that contains a large language model. You can use it to generate text like a chatbot (in any app that uses the HardBuzz software). Who is this for? Why does it exist? We discuss.  https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/    This Week in Space: How did a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way come to be? Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. How this galaxy originated remains unclear. A team of physicists now offers an explanation. Devon does his best to explain Dark Matter and Dark Energy.  He also talks about 'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence M. Krauss. This leads to chatting about another book: 'Raising Freethinkers' by Dale McGowan, Molleen Matsumura, Amanda Metskas and Jan Devor, which has guidelines for how to raise children to think beyond religion. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/06/240611130335.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Universe_from_Nothing  https://archive.org/details/raisingfreethink00mcgo_0    Book Club: These Alien Skies by C.T. Rwizi (part of the Black Stars collection). Accidents happen in the strange realms of the African Union system. One of them sends two humans to the far side of a star gate in a thrilling short story of hope, survival, and new dimensions. We chat about this short story, but honestly, our talk is kinda boring. This was a solid story and we all agree that we enjoyed it.  Next week we are reading The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor (part of the Black Stars collection).  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B098QRGYHR?ref_=dbs_m_aos_rwt_calw_tkin_3&storeType=ebooks  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098T11H5Q?ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_H4Y39S68BAPVJJKQGFZH&ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_H4Y39S68BAPVJJKQGFZH&social_share=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_H4Y39S68BAPVJJKQGFZH   

A past recipient of Harvard's Humanist of the Year award, Dale McGowan is an activist, speaker, author, and Chief Content Manger for http://www.onlysky.media.He joins Seth Andrews for a candid conversation about media, bias, values, religion, and how we might better our efforts to improve the world. https://dalemcgowan.comVIDEO of this interview: https://youtu.be/aGrR8_Qpz0c

How does a secular perspective change the way you see the world and your life? OnlySky's Dale McGowan asks this question of people attending the American Atheists conference in Atlanta.

There's a story in your head, a kind of autobiography. You've been writing and revising it all your life. We take the chaos of information from a normal life and create a story that makes sense. Some of it might even be true. But considering who's telling the story, it's no surprise that a lot of it just doesn't hold up. Dale McGowan was well into adulthood before a random memory surfaced, poking a hole in what he calls his “founding myth.” He had a choice: stick with the better story, or switch to the truer one. Hosted by Leighann Lord for OnlySky Media.

From holidays and gifts to kids and grandkids, dealing with religious in-laws and extended family members can be a minefield of hurt feelings and hard conversations. Mixed-faith marriage expert Rebecca Williams, LMFT will give you some tips for navigating the minefield while preserving your important relationships without sacrificing your values. Rebecca Williams is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. She is the owner of Inland Empire Couples Counseling and specializes in helping mixed faith and religious/secular couples have connected, intimate, satisfying relationships. She's offering a free mini-course for mixed-faith couples. One of Rebecca's therapy superpowers is helping people connect across the religious-secular divide. Hosted by Amaia Perez, the RfR Online Programming Director, and Medelin Nolasco, RfR Helpline Volunteer and Social Host.  Recorded on February 22nd, 2021 Resource List  - Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life book by Marshall Rosenberg  - In Faith and In Doubt book by Dale McGowan  - the.holistic.psychologist on Instagram  - boundariesarebeautiful on Instagram  - RfRx - Boundaries: How to respond to praying, preaching, & proselytizing with Rebecca Williams, LMFT - https://youtu.be/QimzLsILGzE  Learn more about Rebecca Williams, LMFT  - Instagram: @RebeccaRelationshipExpert  - Twitter: @RebeccaWLMFT  - Facebook: Inland Empire Couples Counseling https://www.iecouplescounseling.com/the-united-couple --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/recovering-from-religion/message

Children are taught to fear and avoid this sound. All the more reason to love it.

Dale McGowan joins Sarah Ray and Devon Graham for a conversation about secular parenting in a still highly-religious world.  We talk about parenting during difficult world events and take viewer questions. Dale's Links  Dale's Website:  https://dalemcgowan.com/ How Music Does That Podcast:  https://www.spreaker.com/show/how-music-does-that Raising Freethinkers Podcast:  https://www.spreaker.com/show/raising-freethinkers

Boundaries Part 2! In this episode we give you some listener feedback from social media discussions on the Boundaries Part 1 episode. We talk to two very interesting people —  Andrew Torrez and Kimberly Anderson — who give us various tools to help us make and keep our boundaries and we leave you feeling like your world is a little more under your control and safe.  Show Links:    Andrew:  Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion, Dale McGowan: https://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Beyond-Belief-Raising-Religion/dp/0814437419/ref=pd_bxgy_2/135-4281688-4905455  Companion volume — Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief, by Dale McGowan: https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Freethinkers-Practical-Parenting-Beyond/dp/0814410960/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/135-4281688-4905455    Protect Every Child: https://protecteverychild.com   Proper Channels PLDSC Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zXcUQfuPaA&t=832s   Opening Arguments podcast: https://openargs.com/  Cleanup On Aisle 45 podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cleanup-on-aisle-45-with-ag-and-andrew-torrez/id1549502623    Kimberly:  Twitter: @KimberlyA_AMFT TikTok: kimberly__anderson https://flourishtherapy.org/kimberly-anderson/ https://sunstonemagazine.com/sunstone-firesides-podcast/ She’s also a frequent guest on https://latterdaylesbian.org/index.html   Online counseling: https://www.betterhelp.com/  https://www.seculartherapy.org/    Utah-based therapy serviceshttps://mindfulcounselingutah.com/ https://www.cedarpsychiatry.com/ https://mormonmentalhealthassoc.org/   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GlassBoxPod/posts   Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/glassboxpodcast   Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlassBoxPod    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/    Merch store: https://groundgnomes.launchcart.store/shop

award winning author Dale McGowan discusses how cultural and biological evolution are out of sync and whether or not this is the cause of the culture wars --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/free2think/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/free2think/support

Strip language away, and the human voice becomes a pure instrument of emotion.

On this episode we talk with Dale McGowan about his personal journey being an Atheist, navigating a multi-faith relationship and what he thinks Atheists often get wrong about religion. Dale is the editor and author of several books on nonreligious life, including Parenting Beyond Belief, Raising Freethinkers, Atheism for Dummies, and In Faith and In Doubt. He was named Harvard Humanist of the Year for his work in support of nonreligious parents.

Put on the good Dockers, Chad. We're going in.

The revolution starts right damn now.

Mussorgsky asked the impossible. Ravel made it happen.

Our conversation about moral development is all wrong.

WARNING: This episode contains too many notes.

Eight hundred years ago, they left the church and found the world.

Bertrand Russell was a champion of clear thinking. But when he felt vulnerable, another value took over.

The playful fib can serve a serious purpose in raising critical thinkers.

Why do kids in many cultures taunt each other with a falling minor third?

How the muggle and wizarding worlds collide in the Harry Potter theme.

It's the first question mixed-belief couples hear. The answer is simple.

SHOW NOTESIn this episode of the Atheist Experience, we have Matt Dillahunty and Don Baker as co-hosts. While this episode is not a milestone show like Talk Heathen’s 100th episode, this episode should prove to be just as memorable. Why? Because Don is co-hosting, we love Don! Also Happy Birthday to Matt’s dad!Before we jump into calls, a couple announcements and Don’s list of failures. Today’s topic: Ensoulment. Ensoulment and when the soul gets a body, it is nonsensical at best says Don. Theists and Christians say the soul is intentionally imperfect and created by God. But when do they get put into a body? Does it happen at conception or at first cell division? There are a lot of problems with ensoulment at conception, one being that 50% of fertilized eggs fail or don’t implant. Other problems include but are not limited to, science, chimeras, and developing identical twins! Does one twin go to hell without a soul? Do Chimeras have two souls? Our first caller of the show today is Sean in Nebraska. Sean wonders why we atheists don’t believe in god? Why or why not? He continues to ask about how the Bible claims to be the work of god, how do we demonstrate or prove that it is true? Interestingly he agrees at the ancient age of the Earth, but the “testimonies” of the people in the Bronze age should be accepted. Matt questions his belief in this line of thinking.Our next caller is Chloe from Maryland, She is beginning to have doubts about her faith after coming out LGBTQ. She also questions if it is normal to be angry after being challenged on belief? She is also struggling with the idea that after death there is nothing. Matt attempts to help her understand it’s important to live the one life we all have. (Carpe Diem Chloe!) https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org May help anyone who is struggling with similar issues like Chloe.Next in the queue we have Nate in Alabama. He asks about the laws of logic & science and how would an atheist explain their existence? Matt explains they are non-physical and descriptive. Don chimes in and says it sounds like there is a false equivalency happening due to a lack of context. Our next caller is Greg in Colorado. Whispers they can provide evidence for the existence of god and claims that 0 theists are arguing that god is physical and non-physical. Matt counters saying: Arguing for a conceptual god doesn’t mean that a god exists and the concept of a thing is not the thing. There seems to be a major conflict though, Greg is saying they’re an atheist, but is also claiming to be able to prove a god exists. Greg may be a bit confused, Matt recommends they collecting their thoughts and call back during another show.Next up, Vik in Indiana. Family claims to have experienced a supernatural event and he wants advice on how to approach this story when he visits them. Can Matt and Don provide best practices on how to debunk this and explore the available resources on being a skeptic? The caller following Vik is Stevie in NY. His questions were philosophical in nature. There are things we disagree about, but if there is an observable answer that we agree on, we should all get along. It’s not the topics we agree on that are troublesome, it’s the topics we disagree on where there are potential conflicts and pitfalls. Reminder to all though, don’t tell us what we believe, we will react negatively. AT-HEIST, phooey.Next up, William in Arizona. Has questions about intelligent design, may be approaching the blind watchmaker fallacy. Having one watchmaker make you a watch can be inferred that a watch you happen upon may have been intelligently designed and created, yes we agree on that. William continues, What happens when humans guide the evolution of things or artificial selection? Does it rule out intelligent design or a creator? Matt and Don answers: Nobody made a species in the same way we make a watch. Arguing by analogy isn’t a great way to explain things. Ready for some fireworks? Next we had Otangelo from Brazil. Oh boy. Questions why we answer “I don’t know.” Says “I don’t know” isn’t a justified answer due to the evidence provided. If you can demonstrate the truth of theism, then we can have a conversation. When Otangelo calls in, he claims god instead of “I don’t know” and says we lie about god when we say it. If we don’t know something, then I don’t know is the right answer and we don’t lie nor are we dishonest about it.Afterwards the next caller is Jeff in Florida. Has a 6 year old child and she mentioned her non-belief to a friend. Needs advice on how to encourage his young daughter to talk with him about her friend’s theism and negative reaction to his daughter’s exclamation of atheism. Matt responded People believe different things, and some believe so strongly they could be construed as being mean. But at no point should the desire for friendship override her happiness as a person. Dale McGowan’s book “Parenting beyond belief” may help him traverse this prickly situation.On deck, is Anonymous in Colorado. If I don’t believe in any theology, does that make me an atheist? Does the negation of theology make me an atheist? For some reason didn’t want to hear any answer from Matt and basically didn’t listen to Don. Quite a quick call… Shortest in AXP history?Our final caller is Nicolas in Norway. Has a question about morality. Matt explains how the rules of chess can be fairly similar objectively to the rules of morality. There are objective rules we can make in reference to morality. EXTERNAL LINKS (If needed or discussed during the show)https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org https://ffrf.org http://clergyproject.org https://www.seculartherapy.org/

59% of nonreligious Americans who are married have a religious partner.

It's a fair question. Fortunately there's a very good answer.

From Sting theory to a wedding in Bulgaria, it's meters gone wild.

The most captivating piece by the most famous composer you've never heard of.

It was a middle-class party trick. Then it changed rock and roll.

I found a fun, natural way for my kids to really meet their dad.

'The Gnome' is a creepy masterclass in orchestration.

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We wanted the assistant principal's head on a platter. But some things mattered more.

Even the best science standards can be undercut by one misguided educator.

2019-04-13

When my nonreligious family moved south, I was wound a little tight.

After my girls heard myths every night for weeks...the Bronze Age suddenly broke loose.

Bob Salter's Guests Include: Marty Hayden is Earthjustice's Vice President of Policy & Legislation. Felicia Kornbluh is an American scholar, writer, and feminist activist and Associate Professor at the University of Vermont. Madeleine Kunin is a Swiss-born American diplomat, author (A Coming of Age: My Journey Into the Eighties) and politician. Dale McGowan is an American author, educator, and philanthropist (New Book: In Faith and In Doubt: How Religious Believers and Nonbelievers Can Create Strong Marriages and Loving Families)

Both Darwin's theory and his personal opinions took a long, difficult road to reach us.

Kids should learn about evolution the same way evolution happens -- in small steps over many years.

Before we talk about how to introduce kids to evolution, let's talk about why.

The Curiosity Episode

Author Dale McGowan, along with author Dr. Duffy, discuss how to help your children with their own moral and intellectual development, including advice on religious-extended-family issues, death and life, secular celebrations, wondering and questioning, and more..

Author Dale McGowan, along with author Dr. Duffy, discuss how to help your children with their own moral and intellectual development, including advice on religious-extended-family issues, death and life, secular celebrations, wondering and questioning, and more..

Parenting Beyond Belief is a live internet show airing every Saturday at 1 PM Central. Hosted by Clare Wuellner, Mandisa Thomas, Dale McGowan, Jan Heimlich, and Kendall Hopkins, Parenting Beyond Belief focuses on raising children from a secular perspective. Parenting Beyond Belief is a production of the Atheist Community of Austin.

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This week Jack and Andy talk with Dale McGowan about music (not Atheism, not Satan, not Foundation Beyond Belief, not any of that ….Dale McGowan – Naked Diner Ep 126 was first posted on October 29, 2018 at 8:00 am.©2016 "ZXH Creative". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at zxhcreative@gmail.com

Parenting Beyond Belief is a live internet show airing every Saturday at 1 PM Central hosted by Clare Wuellner, Mandisa Thomas, Dale McGowan, Jan Heimlich, and Kendall Hopkins, focusing on raising children from a secular perspective. Parenting Beyond Belief is a production of the Atheist Community of Austin.The Atheist Community of Austin is organized as a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals.

Don't worry; if you've never heard of 'evidism', you're not alone. This is a term coined by the guests in this episode, inventor Jeff Haley and author Dale McGowan, to describe people committed to fact-based, evidence-based thinking.In this conversation with Bart Campolo, Haley and McGowan talk about their book, Sharing Reality: How to Bring Secularism and Science to an Evolving Religious World, and their ideas for how to have better, more evidence-based conversations with people who have different worldviews.They talk about how we know fact from fiction, the word 'believe', how we know the earth is round, evidence and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, bias and how we must all admit to having it, and how to talk to people of faith.--We'll be having our third Jam Session in the next week or so over at Patreon.com/HumanizeMe. Not a supporter yet? Join up and get extra content for it! We have a goal of 100 patrons... and we're almost there!You can also join our 'secret' (roll-eyes-emoji) Facebook Group to talk with others about the podcast.Got a question for Bart to answer in a future show? Call the ‘Q Line’ at (424) 291-2092.Humanize Me is hosted by Bart Campolo and is produced by JuxMedia.com.

Cass Midgley and Bob Pondillo interview Matt Vollmer, a former Vineyard church worship leader, and a gay man. I've never included a straight guest's sexual orientation during the introduction, but I highlight Matt's because it's a big part of his deconversion story. He didn't allow himself to be himself til he was 44. His departure from faith followed his coming out gay by 6 months. Matt grew up in the church, devoted to his faith and active in music ministry from an early age. But all along, he harbored a devastating secret about his sexual orientation. He did his best live a good, normal Christian life while looking for ways to overcome his constant desire for male intimacy. Finally, after going through two failed marriages and fathering six children, he came to a point of acceptance of this part of himself he could never change, and started dating men. Shortly thereafter, he also walked away from religion entirely, embarking on a grand adventure of life like he never before knew was possible. Joy Hopper's book, "Unspeakable Joy" from episode 186.  About an hour into the interview, our guest today, Matt Vollmer, references episode 177 with Jeff Haley and Dale McGowan as one that helped him take a less hostile position towards religions and those that still adhere to some form. Talking with a friend this week about some friends who have stuck with their faith, surprisingly, and he said, "some people just need it." He even had a friend tell him,"I can't bear the thought of not seeing my grandma again." Implied in that perspective is, "I don't care if it's true or not, I need to believe it's true in order hold myself together. I would collapse if I didn't have that hope. Now, are we to feel sorry for them? Are we to pity them? I say, NO. Of all people, we ex-believers should have compassion on that guy. As post-faith people, we should know the good, the beauty that that faith did for us (until the negative outweighed the positive), and 2) as atheists we should know that this life is hard leave people alone to equip themselves with whatever they need to be happy or even stay sane. We can have compassion because we didn't stick with it for decades because it was fruitless or meaningless. I felt extremely powerful moments in my 20+ years in the faith. Deep feelings, lot of tears, lots of magical moments. AND we know how hard it was to scrape out of our bones with chisels and knives. So we can have com passion. Com is a prefix meaning “with,” “together,” or “in association.” Passion comes from the Latin word passio, meaning suffering. So it means "suffering with." So when you're family member hang on to their faith, we can say--"I get that. I understand the suffering that makes belief in God a salve to the horror of a godless universe. I understand how seeing life through that lens can suspend disbelief and doubt and provide comfort--I used it for a long time before it stopped working for me." Perhaps some of us have even been tempted to go back...only to realize that's not really possible, without an enormous effort keeping certain knowledge chained up in the basement. I'm reading Robert Bly's book, "Iron John." It speaks to tapping into the wild man or woman within each of us. He's critical of anything that tries to suppress our wildness or tries to tame us, including religion.  Thoreau wrote, “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us.” I had a version of this mindset even when I was Christian because I believe it's in my DNA, and thankfully Christianity was unsuccessful at snuffing it out, despite rigorous effort, and that is my wildness. Life is not tame. The universe is not orderly. Fearful people want things to make sense, to be controlled and directed and neatly organized in partitions and walls and boundaries. But nothing about the natural world, including us humans, will ever be successfully caged or controlled or domesticated. And that's not just something I love about life, it's the only way it could ever be. And so the brave must say yes to it. Nassir Ghaemi (Naw-sear Gomy), in his book "A First Rate Madness" argued that the greatest leaders and world changers, including MLK and Ghandi, were a little bit crazy. Normal people don't do amazing things, at least not while they're being normal. By definition, they have to do something abnormal for it to stand out against the vast, boring sea of normalcy. I imagine these people are difficult to be around. Like a tempest is hard to be around. The people around them have to really love them just to endure their shit. But the people that learn to love the wild things have learned the trade-off is they get to live a more vibrant life than they would wer they not around them. It's dangerous. It's unpredictable. It's insane sometimes. It's not for the feint of heart. Have people tried to tame you? Look at the artists that have found their own voice, whether in music or painting or writing. They must be in touch with their inner wildness. Where are the people whose eyes are wide open? They're hiding none of the harshness and ugliness of life from themselves. Where are the people who get angry, get excited, get sad, whose emotions actually flow in sync with what's actually happening. They don't try to do the opposite; like feign happiness when things are sad. This is the work of religions and reality-deniers, whose lives are dominated by their insatiable desires that things be different than what they are. They're the fake it til you make it crowd. But those are aligned with reality and honest with themselves channel those passions into life-giving creativity. Kylie McBeath wrote, "The more we disconnect from our own anger, the more fearful we become." The wild people are not passive, they just fight the right things. No-sayers are working just as hard to fight back reality and yes-sayers are fighting against the temptation to become a no-sayer. We taped the following conversation on January 28th, 2018.We interview people you don’t know, about a subject no one wants to talk about. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, we offer these podcasts freely. And your support truly makes a difference. You can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge a monthly donation through Patreon. that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast, If you've pledged a dollar per episode in the past because it was within your budget to pledge 4 or 5 dollars per month, please go on patreon and change your pledge from one dollar to to 4 or 5 because Patreon forced us to changed to a monthly pledge and you're now pledging a dollar per month, which might be why our monthly check was half of what it's been for over a year, which is around $400. Thank you for your support. it helps my family resent the amount of time I spend on the show less. or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. Credits:"Towering Mountain of Ignorance" intro by Hank Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3v3S82TuxU Intro bumper "Never Know" by Jack JohnsonThe segue music on this episode was created by Cass Midgley mvollmer2012@gmail.com  

Cass Midgley and Dr. Bob Pondillo talk with Jeff Haley and Dale McGowan, authors of "SHARING REALITY: How to Bring Secularism and Science to an Evolving Religious World." Jeff T. Haley is a scientist, lawyer, and inventor. He has argued before the U.S Supreme Court, and founded and directed the nonprofit that led Washington state's successful medical marijuanainitiative. He is currently the founder and CEO of OraHealth, which sells his patented healthcare products through 30,000 pharmacies worldwide. Dale McGowan is the author and editor of numerous books, including Parenting Beyond Belief, In Faith and In Doubt, and Atheism for Dummies. In 2008 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year for his work in nonreligious parent education. Religions are a natural outgrowth of the intuitive ways of knowing that evolved with human culture. Though many people continue to find value in religious identity and community, intuitive knowledge has been eclipsed by a more effective way of knowing-the scientific way. A better way of relating religion to politics called secularism is gradually replacing theocracy. Once you understand and accept the scientific way of knowing and this preferred relationship of church and state, you become agnostic and secular-even if you continue to identify with and participate in religion.As Jeff T. Haley and Dale McGowan argue in this volume, this isn't some abstract dream-it's happening right now. Religions are in a continuous state of evolution, changing beliefs, values, and practices over time. All religions, includingChristianity and Islam, can evolve to accept the scientific way of knowing and secularism, becoming agnostic and even atheistic without losing their essential value. Haley and McGowan explain how you can help this natural process, sharing reality with your friends and family in a way that encourages religions to embrace the best of humanity'S knowledge and values.The only reason I celebrate ANYONE'S faith is if it is "light" and "loose" and full of doubt and uncertainty and love and connectedness and empathy. And I only do that because in this chapter of human history it's the best thing I can do to further the demise of all nonsense forged out of fear, childishness, death-anxiety, and the need for extant meaning, aka religions. See, even if there is a "god" or something of the sort, no human should ever bow the knee to it, nor would a good god want that. The best practice of ethics, morals, virtue, etc. is to ignore god and attend to reality--your neighbors, problem solving, conflict resolution--all the stuff that plagues us and makes life difficult. The day that we stop looking to the heavens to fix us or to save us or to create a new place for us to exit this mess, is the day that we put on our big-person pants, roll up our sleeves, and get busy living and loving the facts, what it means to be human, and the honest resolution of real problems. All notions that take our eyes off reality and onto untruths contribute to our problems, not solve them. And for those too imprinted with religion to embrace that, consider this: after we forsake god and actually love one another and fix things, any god worth her salt will still say, "well done good and faithful servant," because if his ego is too fragile to share the "glory" then fuck him! Now I also want to say something about pedagogy. Pedagogy simply means the function or work of a teacher. Now, nobody likes a smarty pants. But lets ask ourselves why? It could be argued that often the reason people don't like people who know something they don't and want to pass it on is insecurity or jealousy, which are not virtues I feel it must be said. On the other hand, when the student is ready the teacher arrives. Which implies that, like what Jesus said, that trying to teach someone unsolicited advice can backfire. It also has the potential of cutting into their freedom to figure it out for themselves, which knowledge that's hard earned and self-determined always has a more indelible and lasting effect on the learner. It's odd isn't it? My therapist is a wise, old sage who is extremely skilled and self-disciplined in NOT giving me the answers to my problems. Because he knows the value of me figuring it out for myself. He's told me that client after client beg him to "TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" And in his wisdom, he won't. And yet our schools are filled with teachers telling kids what they don't want to hear. What's the balance? You know the phrase, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink?" Often, we focus on the "can't make them drink" part; but think about the first part: we CAN lead people to water and sometimes we should. It goes back to what Jesus said, doesn't it? We should assess the person we're engaged with whether they seem to be a candidate for the truth we could endow in that moment. Otherwise, we're being presumptuous, are we not? For those of us who love to set people free with truth, for those of us whose lives have benefitted SO greatly from truths we've discovered and we want to do is share this or that truth with them, for those of us who see our loved ones sabotaging their own lives by believing lies, we owe to ourselves and everyone in our lives to exercise some age-old wisdom and self-control and truly discern the moment whether it's pregnant with pedagogical possibility, or that person will only resent the impartation and experience it as condescending. It will be lost on them and it will backfire. Often they will double down on their self-deception just to spite you. Similarly, our guests today, Jeff and Dale have taken a similar high road when it comes to the religious hegemonic stronghold Christianity has over America. Instead of the firebrand atheism, which has its place, they've chosen to play nice with their fellow Americans who identify as Christian. They, like the mission of the podcast, seek to oil the wheels of the natural evolution of religious culture and slow, gentle deconstruction that truth will inevitably have on untruths. We taped this conversation on October 21st, 2017. We interview people you don’t know, about a subject no one wants to talk about. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, you can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge one dollar per episode or more through Patreon; that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast, or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. The smallest contribution is greatly appreciated. Credits:"Towering Mountain of Ignorance" intro by Hank Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3v3S82TuxU Intro bumper "Never Know" by Jack JohnsonThe segue music on this episode is recorded by Sam Maher on a handpan in the NY City subway.   Thanks for listening and be a yes-sayer to what is. If you would like to contact our guests directly, you can reach jeff@haley.net and dale@dalemcgowan.com parentingbeyondbelief.com/blog      

Audrey was born into a very strict Jehovah's Witness family. Meetings were held at her church 7 days a week! A week in the life of a Jehovah's Witness consisted of continual preparations for church meetings/activities. This only left time for church.  Audrey eventually left the church at age 21, but this came at a significant cost for her closest relationships. Sam Harris https://www.youtube.com/user/samharrisorg Richard Dawkins https://www.youtube.com/user/richarddawkinsdotnet Dale McGowan https://www.amazon.com/Dale-McGowan/e/B001JS5YU8 audreymoreland911@msn.comaudreymoreland911@gmail.com  

SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR.  Your first month free!   http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/sethandrewsWhat happens when people with conflicting views about God, religion and spirituality fall in love and decide to share life together?  This broadcast features the stories of those who are either married or life partners, and who have differing faith traditions and beliefs (or none).  Their successes and failures.  The challenges of being divided on a critical (or not so critical?) issue.  And the meeting of two very different viewpoints within the same - and very small -space.Does love conquer all?  We discuss.  Plus, Dale McGowan, author of "In Faith and in Doubt," joins us to cap the show with some notes about his research on interfaith couples

Dale McGowan, executive director of the Foundation Beyond Belief talks about some of the exciting ways the organization plans to put humanist principles into action in 2015. Also, statistics on the public's attitudes towards the Christmas holiday, the John Templeton Foundation donates millions of dollars to philosophers who study free will and the Norse god Oden might just be the world's first Christmas ornament.

Dale is the author of a number of excellent books about atheism. His books Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers are all about bringing up children without religion. He’s the author of Atheism for Dummies, a book that surprisingly didn’t exist until 2013. He began Foundation Beyond Belief to encourage atheists to give to charity. He’s the manager of the Atheist Channel on Patheos.com (full disclosure: that’s where I blog). And his latest book, In Faith and In Doubt, is all about relationships between atheists and believers. We spoke with Dale about how to make mixed-faith marriages work, the biggest surprise he uncovered during his search, and the importance of a hand squeeze between loved ones.

Our Guest today is Author Dale McGowan discussing his new book in "Faith and In "Doubt In his new book IN FAITH AND IN DOUBT: How Religious Believers and Nonbelievers Can Create Strong Marriages and Loving Families (AMACOM; August 2014)This show is broadcast live on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

  Special thanks to Dale McGowan, Executive Director of Foundation Beyond Belief for joining us.    

  Special thanks to Dale McGowan, Executive Director of Foundation Beyond Belief for joining us.    

Since Skepticality took a break last episode, Derek comes back with two interviews to fill the void of having no show for a full month. The first is with Dale McGowan; author, speaker, philanthropist, and founder of 'Foundation Beyond Belief'. They discuss how the Foundation came to be, what the current goals are, and how people can get involved worldwide. After Dale, Derek has a discussion with Karen Stollznow; writer, linguist, and author of several books which have a skeptical slant. Derek talks with her about one of her latest books, 'God Bless America', which takes a look at some of the unusual religious practices and beliefs across the United States of America.

Radio Freethinker - Classics - Best of the 230sDon’s Rant's about Harper's redefinition of Antisemitism and his twisted logic of criticizing 'apparent' moral relativism but stating moral acts must be judged relatively...you cannot condemn Israeli actions with weigh them compared to Arab/Palestinian actions.Also from the vaults, my extended interview with Dale McGowan, author of "Atheism for Dummies" and executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief. We discuss that others think of atheism, the history of disbelief and the culture of atheism.Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft

Radio Freethinker Episode 230 - Dummies EditionDon's Rant is about how the continuing revelations from Snowden is showing how the US and Canada are spying allies. Also how much state spying is being done for corporate benefit. Lastly, how this spying is causing a race to the bottom of unethical spyingAlso an extended interview with Dale McGowan, author of "Atheism for Dummies" and executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief. We discuss that others think of atheism, the history of disbelief and the culture of atheism.Check us out online at www.radiofreethinker.com and email us at info@radiofreethinker.com and follow us on twitter at @citrrft

Chas and Damion in conversation with Dale McGowan, author of excellent books about atheism and the only comprehensive books on how to raise freethinking children. Dale blogs at http://parentingbeyondbelief.com/blog/ and his Amazon page is at http://www.amazon.com/Dale-McGowan/e/B001JS5YU8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Chas and Damion in conversation with Dale McGowan, author of excellent books about atheism and the only comprehensive books on how to raise freethinking children. Dale blogs at http://parentingbeyondbelief.com/blog/ and his Amazon page is at http://www.amazon.com/Dale-McGowan/e/B001JS5YU8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Russell Glasser and Jen Peeples with guest Dale McGowan. Atheist Parenting. Jenn and Russell talk with Dale McGowan about atheist parenting.

Recorded 04/06/13 for release on 04/18/13 This is a live episode, you can find the video on YouTube and since we did the whole thing live on the Hangout on Air, All the editing I’ve done is clean up the audio and truncate the silence, otherwise it is live and unedited. 0:01:40 INTRO 0:02:38 INTERVIEW … Continue reading »

In this episode, Jende Huang and Jes Constantine speak with Dale McGowan, founder and executive director of the Foundation Beyond Belief.

On this special episode, we take a look at the issue of freethought parenting. Joined by Dale McGowan, editor and co-author of Parenting Beyond Belief, The Freethought Mom Squad and some actual children, we discuss many of the issues facing non-religious parents including: the fear of indoctrination, how to have religiously literate children, being an outspoken atheist while still being a good parent, raising moral kids and how to deal with the ever important Santa question. Reasonable Doubts: Your skeptical guide to religion offering news and commentary of interest to skeptics, atheists, humanists, apologists looking for a challenge and freethinkers of all persuasions.

A special interview with Dale McGowan, co-author of "Raising Freethinkers" and founder of the new secular charity, "Foundation Beyond Belief." Also, Amie Parsons, 2009 Camp Director of Camp Quest Texas. Dale and Amie chat about raising freethinking children and the challenges of being a freethinking parent in a society that largely embraces supernaturalism.

Dale McGowan has edited and co-authored Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers, the first comprehensive resources for nonreligious parents. He writes the secular parenting blog The Meming of Life, teaches nonreligious parenting seminars across the United States, and serves as executive director of Foundation Beyond Belief, a 501(c)(3) humanist charitable and educational foundation based in Atlanta. In September 2008 he was named Harvard Humanist of the Year by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University. In this interview with D.J. Grothe, Dale McGowan talks about raising freethinking children who are steeped in the values of science and humanism. He confronts some of reasons why some nonreligious parents may continue to raise their children in a religion, including moral education, identity and community. He describes trends within the scientific rationalist and humanist movements to provide secular community, which he argues are being driven by freethinking families. He talks about ways that church is increasingly becoming replaced by secular communities, and how churches are increasingly becoming more like secular community centers, as opposed to worship centers. He argues that raising freethinkers is the opposite of indoctrinating children in atheism, secular humanism or skepticism, emphasizing that "freethinking" is an approach to knowledge as opposed to a worldview. He also argues that parenting should not be focused on the value of inquiry and scientific skepticism, but on wonder, mystery and awe. He talks about the dangers of inculcating elitism among freethinking children. He explains why teaching about religion to freethinking children is important. He addresses ways of confronting death and the meaning of life with freethinking children, including how highly unlikely it is that any of us even exist. He talks about alternatives to lying to children about heaven, including facts from physics about the atoms in our bodies having existed since the beginning of the universe, and how such scientific truths may take on mystical pantheistic meanings. He talks about new social science research on happiness, and how it relates to and informs secular parenting. And he cautions that applying the best social science to parenting shouldn't mean that we make our children our next science project. Also in this episode, Michael Blanford, founder of the Skeptical Society of St. Louis and coordinator for the Life Science Lab for the St. Louis Science Center, shares an audio essay about the awe of science for children and why freethinkers should be more emotionally engaged when celebrating evolution as the story of life.

Dale McGowan and August Berkshire discuss alternative scriptures.

Dale McGowan and August Berkshire discuss the problem of evil.