Secular Student Life
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOfficial podcast of the Secular Student Alliance
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Episodes
Unique Challenges for Black Nonbelievers with Mandisa Thomas
July 22, 2019 18:15 - 47 minutes - 49.2 MBIn this episode we talk with Mandisa Thomas, founder and president of Black Nonbelievers, Inc., about the unique challenges and opportunities for black Americans who are leaving faith and religion behind. Mandisa Thomas was the keynote speaker at this year’s Secular Student Alliance Conference in Los Angeles and the recipient of the 2019 SSA Backbone Award. The SSA Backbone Award is given annually to a leader whose dedication and work over many years has been foundational in the cause of se...
What does it mean to be secular? with Nick Fish
May 31, 2019 01:36 - 58 minutes - 68.9 MBOn this episode we talk with Nick Fish, president of American Atheists, about what it means to be an atheist and a secular person in America today. Nick Fish is a seasoned civil rights and civil liberties activist with more than a decade of political, organizing, and leadership experience with many of the nation’s most prominent political organizations and progressive non-profits. A native of Michigan, Nick studied political science at Albion College before working in Raleigh, North Carolin...
Discussing the Bladensburg Cross with Monica Miller and Sarah Henry
April 01, 2019 21:18 - 46 minutes - 47.5 MBOn this episode of the Secular Student Life podcast, Ryan Bell speaks with Monica Miller, about the Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Maryland—a war memorial that stands 40 feet tall in the middle of a busy intersection. Monica is Senior Counsel at the American Humanist Association. Since joining the AHA in 2012, she has vigorously defended the constitutional mandate of separation of church and state by litigating Establishment Clause cases across the country. She has served as lead counsel in ove...
Facing and Growing Through Grief with Alana Carter and Garrett Price
March 04, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBOn this episode of the Secular Student Life podcast, Ryan Bell speaks with Alana Carter, a student at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, about her deconversion experience and subsequent experience of loss. In the space of just a year or so, Alana lost her dad, her grandmother, her aunt, and then her cat. Some of these losses happened while she was studying abroad. Alana speaks with impressive wisdom and shares how she has faced grief as a secular person. Then Ryan speaks with Garrett ...
Lisa Daugherty, Kevin Bolling, Charles Darwin, and more...
February 04, 2019 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBOn this episode of Secular Student Life, Ryan Bell speaks with Lisa Daugherty, a student at Ivy Tech Community College in Evansville, Indiana. Lisa has worked tirelessly to get her chapter started and running smoothly in the past year, in the face of steady opposition, but there are signs that the ice is breaking and even some Christians on campus have become allies. Lisa also shares from her personal life about her upbringing in the church and how she became an atheist later in life. RE...
Secular Student Life podcast launches Feb 4!
January 28, 2019 23:48 - 44 seconds - 991 KBPreview the intro theme