HALEA teaches debate skills, literacy, music, journalism, craftwork; they provide meals so HIV+ kids can take their pills w/out vomiting; they use theatre to educate slum teens about drug addition and sexual hygiene. Their security guard was brutalized and their headquarters burgled. How will they continue with their mission, combating cultural dogmas to empower youth?

Sam Mulvey: There are archetypes in radio broadcasting, and one of the most well known ones was the Professional Angry Person.   Every market has one or more of them, and for a good, long while, that guy in Seattle was Ken Schram.

This week, Ask An Atheist will run a very special 1.5-hour episode! The first half, we’ll hear about a variety of folks putting Humanist ideals into action in some high-impact ways outside of North America.

Recently, a frequent listener of Ask an Atheist gave us some feedback regarding the show’s tendency towards “bashing religion”. The listener stated that if it were their show about their own faith, they’d prefer to tackle philosophical conundrums and historical insights, rather than criticize the faiths of others. Unfortunately, most of atheists’ histories were recorded by the people who persecuted them, and those histories ain’t pretty…

Hey everybody!  Dave here.  All of us are hoping you are all enjoying this season.  We were really excited to have Roy Zimmerman in the studio with us, and were excited with the turnout for the after-show with him.  We’re also thrilled to be recording live at TCC again.  Last years was a blast, and […]

…I bet I’m as tired of that article as she is. Time to move on.

KING5 did a follow up story, but got a few things wrong, especially regarding the amendment to the budget preventing this from happening again.  It did not pass.   We’re expecting to see something from the Tacoma News Tribune soon, we’ll see how that goes. Here’s a podcast with an exhausted take on how it went […]

As we mentioned in Sunday’s episode, the Pierce County Council is giving $7,000 to an organization called Child Evangelism Fellowship.   The meeting to further discuss the 2014 budget is happening today at 3:00 PM at the County-City building here in Tacoma (Google Maps link).   The meeting is on the 10th floor, in room 1046. […]

For 24 hours, the cast, crew, and friends of Ask An Atheist will be participating in our fall 2013 streamathon fundraiser, entertaining you with banter and attempts at religiously themed video games! All for your contributions that sustain the show!

AaA veteran Darren and perennial post-show friend Tyson will be appearing in a live conversation with the pastor of Life Center Church about how theists and atheists can find common ground. If you can’t make it in person, the event will be broadcasted online from the Life Center live streaming page at <http://lifecentertv.com/live/>;. Ask your […]