Progress Report for My Project Donors

13 June 2014

Six years ago I put out a call for benefactors to fund a research and writing project to help me cancel my student debt. I said I’d do whatever my donors asked for. You unanimously said: the historicity of Jesus. For that project I raised $20,000, with the...

FTB Now Hosting a Blogger in Iran

19 March 2014

We are going to be onboarding some new bloggers in coming months, mostly after we launch a redesign of the site (coming soon), but one has joined us already: Kaveh Mousavi is the pseudonym of an atheist ex-Muslim living in Iran, subject to one of the world’s...

On the Delay

28 February 2014

So sorry I’ve left comments in the queue a whole week. Apart from all the stuff keeping me busy to the very wire (as I noted a day or two ago), I really, really wanted to get my review of Maurice Casey’s anti-mythicist’s book posted tonight. So...

Slowly Spinning up the FTL again…

11 February 2014

I was on forced hiatus from my blog for over a week after FtBCon 2, due to a number of tech difficulties on the site and my being in studio all week recording (an exhausting and time consuming business). And then all the chores that were left undone (e.g. a major...

FtBCon 2: Philosophy for Everyone

2 February 2014

At 10am PST today (noon Central) I’ll be hosting the panel Philosophy for Everyone. Please tune in and watch. (The link to the video feed is the “Official Session Page,” down the right margin of the Lanyrd event page.) Questions can be directed to us...

What I'll Be Up to During FtBCon 2

29 January 2014

Lousy Cannuck had a great idea. He listed all the events this weekend he will be facilitating (and thus introducing and helping to run behind the scenes), “Okay,” he wrote, “I’ll admit it, I made this post mostly as a to-do list for my own purposes....

Another Update for FtBCon 2 This Weekend!

29 January 2014

I’ll be introducing yet another panel this weekend, featuring Kim Rippere and Julia Burke Secular Woman, who will discuss the trends and developments in 2013 at the intersection of social justice, feminism, and equality in the secular movement and beyond. Check it...

Update for FtBCon 2 This Weekend!

27 January 2014

The calendar for this weekend’s free online conference is available for perusal. It has undergone several additions and scheduling changes over the past few days, with even more speakers and panelists being added to the list (now counting over 93). Among which,...

A New Bayesian Calculator

8 January 2014

Bill Seymour has developed a new, more advanced Bayesian calculator for public use, and he would like people to beta test it and offer advice, or even develop it further. For this open-source Bayes’ Theorem calculator, Seymour writes: My intent was to find the middle...

The Gettier Problem

5 December 2013

Among my many forms of cobbled-together self-employment I provide specialized tutoring to graduate students in ancient history and philosophy around the world. Which is rewarding in lots of ways. One of which is when my student ends up correcting an error of mine....

Beyond the Black Rainbow…and Other New Films in my Amazon Store

27 November 2013

I no longer maintain a video store. But I do make a commission if you buy any of the following videos through the links provided here. I also have more recommendations in The Fifty Five Films That Most Affected Me Growing Up. Whip It (directed by Drew Barrymore), with...

Want to Read All Our Blogs with NO Ads? Well, Now You Can!

2 November 2013

You can now subscribe to FtB, and your subscription fee substitutes for our ad revenue, and the ads go away, and you still get to support our work. It’s just $30 a year (or less if you want smaller increments). You get access not just to my blog without ads, but...

Now You Can Wear Even More Bayes’ Theorem!

4 October 2013

Did you say Odds Form? Shirt? Car Flag? Panties? Hell yeah. I just finished loading my old Cafe Press store with tons of different shirts and other odds and ends featuring my Bayesian graphic, which uses imaginative rather than standard mathematical notation (as I...

Two More New Bloggers

15 August 2013

We have two more new awesome bloggers at Freethought Blogs. Kate Donovan (of the US) joined us in July, and now Alex Gabriel (of the UK) joins us this August. Kate is blogging here at Gruntled & Hinged (“A Blog about Madness and Mental Health by Your...

CFI Still Doesn't Get It

9 August 2013

If you didn’t already know, a scandal has exploded yet again throwing CFI in a bad light (you can catch up on events here and you should definitely read the original piece starting it all here). And once again they are making things worse with a disastrous...