Marc kreidler

A set of mysterious lights seen recently over New Jersey bears a striking resemblance to the 2008 Phoenix Lights UFO Hoax

CFI President and CEO Ronald A. Lindsay offers some light bulb jokes — and challenges other humanists to do better.

Can humanism promote an active faith in ethical ideals, without falling into the religious divide of dogmatic faith?

Should atheists and nonbelievers sue to prevent the inaugural benediction and the use of the words “so help me God” when Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20th?    According to Michael Newdow’s website , more than two-dozen individuals and organizations – including the American Humanist Association and the Freedom From Religion …

In December 2007, Skeptical Inquirer managing editor Ben Radford made 22 predictions for 2008…

A new television series,   The Real Exorcist , has debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel, whose executives and producers continue to promote pseudoscience and worse. The show features fundamentalist minister Bob Larson,   whose Web site pleads for help in fighting demonic evil with “prayer and financial help.” Jesus, Larson claims, has actually “chosen” him …

Recently I came across a front-page headline in my local newspaper, about a state senator here in New Mexico whose brain disease may have been cured by God through the power of prayer. “Brain Disease Either Gone or Stalled,” was the front page article’s subhead. I wrote a column about this for LiveScience.com; here’s an …

The international medical bureau at Lourdes, the Catholic healing shrine, will no longer designate cases “miraculous.”

Kendrick Frazier’s Commentary to appear in the March/April 2009 Skeptical Inquirer

You can get a pretty good pie fight going even among secular humanists by comparing attitudes on the holidays. Me, I’ve been Yule-free for 24 years now, and I’ve been emphatic in praising initiatives to tone down holiday symbolism in public places as America grows more diverse. I was the one you heard cheering when all the holiday finery was briefly removed from Seattle’s Sea-Tac Airport two years ago. And I’ve been raising the same cheers for UNC-Chapel Hill, where the main libraries opted not to display their Christmas trees in deference to the campus’s growing non-Christian population. I’m all for this sort of reform, and I hope (and expect) to see lots more in future years. I recognize that’s a controversial position among humanists, quite a few of whom view stuff like this as political correctness run amok. “Why waste effort being concerned with non-Christians taking offense at Christmas?” they say. “The holiday’s so secular it hardly even serves as an emblem of Christianity anymore.”