This week we have our usual news roundup, the best of Irish atheist blogs, and of course a list of upcoming events including a TV show tonight and this week’s return of Dublin Atheists in the Pub. We also have a profile of Kate Smurthwaite who’ll be speaking at our conference in June.
- Derek Walsh, Editor
Welcome to this week’s Secular Sunday. We have some real changes this week.
Most significantly we have a new contributor. Barbara Monea is a 30-year-old Italian who has recently joined Atheist Ireland. She is a long-time member of UAAR (Union of Atheists and Agnostics in Italy) and was a regular contributor to the news section of their website. She has kindly offered to take on a similar role here, providing a weekly digest of relevant news for this newsletter.
The email version of the newsletter is now powered by MailChimp, which allows more automation and flexibility. There will likely be some abrupt and unpopular changes in layout before I settle on a suitable format. Please be patient. Honest feedback is always appreciated.
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It’s time for this week’s Secular Sunday. There are a few, largely cosmetic, changes to the format, most noticeable in the e-mail edition. As promised, more substantial improvements are coming but it’s an evolving process. (As an atheist I don’t believe in Intelligent Design!) Feedback is welcome.
In this issue:
Welcome to the first Secular Sunday of 2013. Eagle-eyed readers may notice that the format is essentially unchanged from previous editions, but the good news is that there are a number of changes in the pipeline. Beginning with the next issue (probably!) there will be a new improved layout, an automated email subscription feature, an integrated interactive calendar and maybe more. I am taking time to make sure that all these features work correctly and that they don’t compromise accessibility, so they may not all be introduced at once. In the meantime, it’s business as usual.
In this issue:
Welcome to this week’s Secular Sunday.
In this issue:
Patty Gray, professor of anthropology in NUI Maynooth, who has lived and worked in Russia, talks about the background to the Pussy Riot trial and conviction at the Dublin Atheists in the Pub evening hosted by Atheist Ireland on 13 Sep 2012.
Victor Diac from Romania discusses leaving the Eastern Orthodox clergy at the Dublin Atheists in the Pub evening hosted by Atheist Ireland on 9 August 2012.
Vahid Bokharaie discusses Islam and being an Iranian atheist at the Dublin Atheists in the Pub evening hosted by Atheist Ireland on 9 August 2012.
Aoife McLysaght of TCD Genetics Dept talks at Dublin Atheists in the Pub, July 2012. She talks about how we become atheists, a new book called the Young Atheists’s Handbook by former Muslim Alom Shaha, the Giant’s Causeway creationist controversy, and defending science against religious arguments.
Secular Sunday #66 – Bigger than Jesus
I don’t feel like I’ve saved any daylight today. I feel like I’ve been robbed of an hour that I won’t get back till October. So, produced in less time than usual, here’s this week’s newsletter.
- Derek Walsh, Editor
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