Happy 2025 Birthday to Melinda Snodgrass!
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Happy birthday to Melinda Snodgrass!
Melinda M. Snodgrass is a writer who worked on several stories and teleplays for Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was also a story editor for The Next Generation during the second season and an executive script consultant on the third season. Her script for “The Measure Of A Man” was unsolicited, the first such script to be produced for The Next Generation. It was also one of the first scripts that she ever wrote. (Peter Lauritson, TNG Season 2 DVD special feature “Departmental Briefing Year Two: Memorable Mission – The Measure Of A Man”)
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of November 27, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
Freethought Radio – November 27, 2025
We are thankful for the many speakers and performers at FFRF’s 48th annual convention. We listen to 20 clips from that entertaining and enlightening event.
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FFRF launches new secular streaming entertainment service
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is proudly launching Freethought TV, a free and innovative streaming service delivering bold, thought-provoking secular content to your living room — completely free of charge.
Designed for smart TVs, streaming sticks and mobile devices, Freethought TV provides on-demand access to the latest FFRF programming, alongside an expansive archive of hundreds of classic episodes produced in-house over the years. The platform offers a dynamic mix of informative, inspiring and entertaining content aimed at freethinkers, skeptics and anyone curious about secular perspectives.
“Freethought TV is more than a streaming service — it’s a hub for reason, critical inquiry and celebration of the First Amendment,” says FFRF Co-President Dan Barker. “We’re giving the public direct access to a rich library of secular programming, empowering viewers to explore and engage with a wide spectrum of freethought voices.”
Freethought TV will feature new FFRF content like “Secular Spotlight” and “Freethought Radio” video interviews, as well as complete seasons of classic shows like “Freethought Matters” and “Ask An Atheist.” In addition, the channel features speeches by major figures, authors and activists from FFRF national conventions, as well as musical and seasonal specials. There’s also a section called “Greatest Hits,” which features the most popular FFRF videos of all time.
The app is available on Roku, Google TV, Fire TV and Android smartphones. Versions of Freethought TV for Samsung, LG, AppleTV and iPhones will be announced soon.
With a built-in search function and an optional free personal account, users can instantly find and bookmark their favorite episodes. Freethought TV is simple to install — just search for “Freethought TV” in your device’s app store and follow the easy prompts to start streaming immediately.
Barker notes that Freethought TV is the only streaming app on any major platform exclusively dedicated to the concerns of atheists, agnostics and other freethinkers.
“There are scores of streaming channels out there run by megachurches and religious broadcasters,” Barker, a former minister-turned-atheist, notes.“Right now, Freethought TV is a lone voice for reason in a sea of religious propaganda.”
“We like to call it ‘free content for free minds,’” he adds.
For more information about Freethought TV, and specific instructions for installing the app on your device, visit us at freethoughttv.ffrf.org/.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With about 42,000 dues-paying members, FFRF is the largest freethought association in North America. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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At U. Arkansas teach-in, speakers denounce Ten Commandments posters as ‘clearly unconstitutional’
The College Fix
By Marcy Brookhouser
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Oklahoma court tosses lawsuit over Bibles in the classroom after state refuses to enforce mandate
The Independent
By Katie Hawkinson
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Oklahoma Supreme Court tosses Bible mandate suit
Oklahoma City Free Press (Oklahoma City, OK)
By Janelle Stecklein
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A Call for a New Media Strategy
The Humanist
Transcript of speech by Hemant Mehta
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Death penalty has no place: Freethinkers destroyed it
Freethinkers International
By Jan Bryxí
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Out Today: “Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #3”
Out today: “Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #3“, by Susan Bridges and Tilly Bridges.
To save the Federation—and the entire Alpha Quadrant—Captain Janeway made the ultimate sacrifice: deleting Species 8472’s data on opening a singularity into normal space. Now, Voyager is stranded in fluidic space…and 8472 wants them dead.
Hunted by a relentless alien fleet, Janeway and her crew go on the run, weaving through planets and asteroid fields in a desperate bid to survive. But just as hope begins to fade, Voyager’s sensors detect something unexpected: the wreckage of a Borg cube.
Is it a lifeline back to the galaxy they call home…or the beginning of an even greater threat?
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La. school district upholds student freedom of conscience after FFRF complaint
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After the Freedom From Religion Foundation contacted the Benton, La.-based Bossier Parish Schools system to complain about a local church soliciting students to join a youth group, a thorough district-led investigation has put a stop to any unconstitutional activity.
A concerned parent reported that Benton Middle School allowed Cypress Baptist Church members to come into the school during lunch to encourage students to attend the church’s Wednesday night youth group. Cypress Baptist Church’s website explicitly states that it “strives to love God and love people by evangelizing students.”
FFRF wrote to the district to let it know that church representatives should not be given special access to proselytize students.
“The District cannot allow its schools to be used as recruiting grounds for churches and certainly not during the school day, including the lunch period when students are still under the care and control of the school,” FFRF Patrick O’Reiley Legal Fellow Charlotte R. Gude wrote.
The district serves a diverse population that consists not only of Christian students, families and employees but also of atheists, agnostics, members of minority faiths and those who are simply religiously unaffiliated. Providing a Christian group preferential access during the school day sends an official message that excludes all nonreligious district students and community members, and those religious students who don’t follow the Christian religion. More than half of Generation Z (those born after 1996) is non-Christian, including 43 percent who are religiously unaffiliated.
Not only did the district respond to FFRF, but it also proved willing to stand up for students’ freedom of conscience.
FFRF received a letter from Neal L. Johnson, Jr., who serves as the school district’s legal representative, detailing the steps the district took after receiving FFRF’s letter, including an in-depth investigation.
“First, the safety, welfare, and constitutional rights of students are of paramount importance to the Bossier Parish School Board,” Johnson wrote. “The school board takes every allegation seriously and strives to investigate all complaints, anonymous or otherwise.”
The school board representative who led the investigation spoke with both the principal of Benton Middle School and the pastor at Cypress Baptist Church. During the investigation, the principal affirmed the policy that no religious organization is to be given special access to the campus. When any representative from a religious organization requests to visit the campus, that person must first meet with the principal to discuss the reason. The principal said they make it abundantly clear that these representatives cannot promote their religious viewpoints or invite students to attend a service for their religious organization.
As an additional measure in the investigation, the principal was granted the authority by a parent of a student to speak with the student regarding comments from Cypress Point youth pastors that troubled the student. The investigation revealed that the youth pastors confirmed they had invited students to a dodgeball tournament at the church in August, and on another occasion, confirmed to students they would be smashing a car at the church that evening.
“The principal reminded the pastors that they are to refrain from any church invitations, recruitment or religious references,” Johnson wrote.
The district representative also spoke with the church’s pastor, who confirmed that he was aware that when youth pastors go to campus, any communication with students must be secular in nature, and the youth pastors were also aware of this. Regardless, the point was reinforced to all members of the church.
Finally, the complaint was brought before the school board’s Religious Monitoring Committee, which reviewed the complaint and investigation. The committee instructed Johnson to explain the detailed investigation, and to inform FFRF that the committee “stand[s] ready to investigate and resolve this and any future complaint that may come to their attention.”
FFRF is pleased that the district took the complaint seriously and put in the legwork to ensure that students’ rights will no longer be violated.
“It is encouraging to see a district work so thoroughly to protect the First Amendment after a violation occurred,” FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor says. “Students deserve a space to be free from religious coercion, and knowing that the Bossier Parish School was willing to defend that space is encouraging.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with over 41,000 members across the country, including more than 100 members in Louisiana. Its purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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FFRF warns of alarming attempt to gut Johnson Amendment through Trump-era IRS settlement
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is warning that a fringe Christian nationalist effort, bolstered by Donald Trump’s IRS, is attempting to dismantle the Johnson Amendment. This federal law bars tax-exempt nonprofits, including churches, from endorsing or opposing political candidates.
Today, a federal court will consider a proposed settlement between the IRS and two churches represented by Christian nationalist activist Michael Farris, the former CEO and general counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom, another Christian nationalist outfit. The proposal represents a stunning decision to openly abandon enforcement of the Johnson Amendment for churches, which could effectively turn them into unregulated political action committees subsidized by taxpayers.
“This is a blatant end-run designed to turn churches into political machines fueled by dark, tax-deductible money,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “The IRS has no authority to overturn a law passed by Congress, and the court shouldn’t let it try.”
The Johnson Amendment has overwhelmingly popular support: Nonprofits can speak on issues but cannot engage in partisan politicking while receiving special tax privileges. In 2022, Pew Research found that “about three-quarters of U.S. adults (77 percent) say that churches and other houses of worship should not endorse candidates for political offices. Two-thirds (67 percent) say that religious institutions should keep out of political matters rather than expressing their views on day-to-day social or political questions.”
FFRF sued Trump and the IRS in 2017 after Trump signed an executive order that falsely claimed to “get rid of the Johnson Amendment.” FFRF’s attorneys successfully persuaded the Trump administration to acknowledge in court that the president lacked the authority to revoke a congressional statute by executive fiat. The IRS’ current action similarly cannot invalidate a constitutional law passed by Congress. FFRF also successfully sued the IRS in 2012 to compel it to enforce its own regulations barring tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofits from engaging in partisan political activity.
Thirteen members of Congress, led by Reps. Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin, have demanded that the IRS withdraw the settlement, calling it “a transparent end-run around Congress.”
Their letter states:“This reinterpretation is not permissible under the statute as enacted and sustained by Congress; presents serious constitutional concerns as a potential violation of the Equal Protection Clause; fails to disclose any fiscal effects of reinterpreting the law; and sidelines the principled and compelling opposition expressed by thousands of nonprofits, houses of worship and faith-based organizations that would be harmed by adopting this proposal.”
Adds Gaylor, “The court must not rubber-stamp this scheme.
“Our elections and very democracy are at stake.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With about 42,000 members, FFRF is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and humanists) in North America. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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Freedom From Religion Foundation announces 2026 law student essay contest
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is excited to announce the 2026 First Amendment Scholars Diane and Stephen Uhl Memorial Essay Competition for Law School Students, with a top prize of $4,000!
Law school students are being asked to respond to the 2025 Supreme Court decision of Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which the court sided with religious parents who objected on religious grounds to public school instruction that included books with LGBTQ-plus themes or characters. Students are also asked to analyze how the principle of “parental rights” has changed from the previous decision, Wisconsin v. Yoder, and to discuss how the court could or should balance competing interests between the expanded understanding of parental rights in the context of the First Amendment in future cases.
FFRF will award cash prizes to the top three essayists ($4,000, $3,000, $2,000) and optional honorable mentions ($500). All eligible entrants will also receive a one-year complimentary student membership to FFRF, which includes a digital version of 10 issues of its newspaper Freethought Today.
Essays will be blinded to avoid unintentional bias. A selection of FFRF attorneys will be on the review panel.
The contest is open to all current law students attending a North American law school. Students will remain eligible to enter even if they are to graduate from law school by the spring or summer of 2026. They are not eligible to enter if they will just be starting law school for the first time in the fall of 2026. They may not re-enter if FFRF has already awarded them for a law student essay.
Any entries must be the original work of the entrant and not the result of AI (ChatGPT or other large language models), plagiarism or ghostwriting.
Essay must be no longer than 1,500 words (not including footnotes), double-spaced, with standard margins and with font size of 11 to 14 point. Include page numbers and the title of your essay on each page. Choose your own title. Indicate word length at the end of the essay. To apply, go to: surveymonkey.com/r/lawstudentessay
The deadline for entry is Jan. 30, 2026. For complete rules and eligibility requirements, or to enter the contest, click here.
“Young Gen Z attorneys will pave the way,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “With a rogue court going unchecked, the future of law needs students willing to stand up for true religious liberty and the separation of state and church.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation strongly encourages law students to enter the contest. The state/church association offers five other essay contests for other grade levels, which are announced in March. FFRF has bestowed more than $130,000 in 2025 to winning student essayists and student activists.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With about 42,000 members, FFRF is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and humanists) in North America. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Tony Daniel!
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Happy birthday to Tony Daniel!
Tony Daniel is the author of the Pocket TOS novels Devil’s Bargain and Savage Trade.
Daniel was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and currently lives in Raleigh North Carolina. He has a wife and two children. His first novel was the 1991 Candle, republished in 1993 as Warpath, which is about the settlement of other star systems by Native Americans.
An editor at Baen Books, he has authored a number of non-Trek novels and short stories. He has been nominated for a Hugo Award for his short story Life on the Moon in 1996.
Check out the Tony Daniel credit page to view more updates and a full list of credits!
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Ten Commandments Have a December 1 Deadline for Some Texas School Districts
KSST Radio (Sulphur Springs, TX)
By Staff
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The government services one Wyoming lawmaker thinks churches can take a lead on
Wyoming Public Media (Laramie, WY)
By Chris Clements
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Critics say DHS ‘For God & Country’ video crosses a dangerous line
Straight Arrow News
By Krystal Nurse
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DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of November 25, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
Heather Antos on Cryptidcreatorcorner.com discussing “Star Trek”
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Heather Antos was recently featured on Cryptidcreatorcorner.com to discuss Star Trek:
This is an incredible episode today as Jimmy welcomes Heather Antos on the podcast. Heather’s name has been mentioned more than a few times on the podcast over the years as an editor on some of our favorite comics. Heather talks about how she got into comics, her work at Marvel, her role at IDW, Star Trek comics, the new IDW Dark line, her editing of creator-owned comics like the fantastic Bug Wars, and a whole lot more!
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Preview of “Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #3”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #3 by Susan Bridges and Tilly Bridges which is due to be released this Wednesday on November 26, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
Hunted by a relentless alien fleet, Janeway and her crew go on the run, weaving through planets and asteroid fields in a desperate bid to survive. But just as hope begins to fade, Voyager’s sensors detect something unexpected: the wreckage of a Borg cube.
Is it a lifeline back to the galaxy they call home…or the beginning of an even greater threat?
Last Chance: Star Trek Book Deals For November 2025
Here’s your last chance to grab this month’s deal, there’s over 20 books for just $1.99!
Watch the prices on these, they’re being advertised as being on sale, but a couple of them are a pretty extreme $14.99, with only three books at the “normal” $1.99. Maybe the prices will drop?
Star Trek 7: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek: 15 Corona
Star Trek: 2 The Entropy Effect
Star Trek: 20 The Vulcan Academy Murders
Star Trek: 38 The Idic Epidemic
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Section 31: Abyss
Star Trek: Enterprise: Shockwave
Star Trek: Errand of Fury Book 1: Seeds Of Rage – $1.99
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Rise Like Lions
Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows – $1.99
Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements
Star Trek: Section 31: Cloak
Star Trek: Section 31: Disavowed
Star Trek: The Next Generation: 47 The Q Continuum 1: Q-Space – $1.99
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Section 31: Rogue
Star Trek: The Original Series: Seasons of Light and Darkness
Star Trek: Titan: Over a Torrent Sea
Star Trek: Titan: Taking Wing
Star Trek: To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh
Star Trek: VI The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: Voyager: Section 31: Shadow
Happy 2025 Birthday to Dave Stern!
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Happy birthday to Dave Stern!
Dave Stern is a Star Trek author and editor living in Massachusetts.
Writer of a number of stories in the universe, his first contribution was for DC Comics co-writing the eighteenth issue of their second TNG volume, “Forbidden Fruit”. Not long after, he wrote the audio adventure Transformations for George Takei.
Stern was also an editor on the Pocket Books Star Trek line, and worked heavily on the Enterprise series of novels, writing five of the tie-in books.
Most recently, he wrote the Original Series novel, The Children of Kings, and was hired on by Stardock to oversee creative storytelling and lore implementation for their Elemental: War of Magic game.
Check out the Dave Stern credit page to view more updates and a full list of credits!
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FFRF ends coach-led prayer in Ohio school district
The Freedom From Religion Foundation stood up for the First Amendment rights of student athletes in Lake Local Schools, after a cross country coach in the Uniontown, Ohio, school district led students in prayer before meets.
A concerned district parent reported that a cross country coach at Lake Middle High School told the team, “Let’s continue to pray before every meet like last year.” FFRF also was informed that coach-led prayer was common across sports teams in the district.
FFRF’s parent-complainant and student complainant reported feeling helpless, awkward and embarrassed that the child was forced either to pray against their own conscience or risk ostracization by not participating in the unconstitutional prayer.
FFRF stepped in to remind the district of their obligation to remain secular.
“It is unrealistic and unconstitutional to put student athletes to the choice of allowing their constitutional rights to be violated in order to maintain good standing in the eyes of their coach and peers or openly dissenting at the risk of retaliation from their coach and teammates,” FFRF Anne Nicol Gaylor Legal Fellow Kyle J. Steinberg wrote.
Student athletes have the First Amendment right to be free from religious indoctrination when participating in their public school’s athletics program. Here, the coach clearly crossed the constitutional line by pressuring students, while acting in her official capacity as a district employee, to engage in prayer. The coach’s actions are particularly troubling for those parents and students who are not Christians or do not subscribe to any religion. Nearly half of Gen Z (those born after 1996) are nonreligious, so this likely represents a significant number of students in the district.
FFRF’s efforts proved successful, and the district superintendent confirmed that student rights would be respected going forward.
“While employees maintain their individual right to pray, no district employees will lead student athletes in prayer,” Superintendent Brett Yeagley wrote via email. “The district met with all head coaches on Friday, September 12th, as part of our previously scheduled professional development day to ensure this important matter is addressed and expectations are clearly communicated.”
FFRF is glad to see the district put a stop to coercive prayer practices.
“No student should be forced to pray to play, ” FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor said. “Students deserve a space where they can be free from religious influence while honing their skills — both on and off the field. It’s not only FFRF that believes that — state/church separation is a foundational principle in our Constitution.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with over 42,000 members and several chapters across the country, including more than 1,100 members and two chapters in Ohio. Its purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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FFRF alarmed after Fla. adoption of Heritage Foundation’s anti-education framework
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is sounding the alarm about the Florida Board of Education’s recent adoption of the Heritage Foundation’s “Phoenix Declaration.”
This document is a vague but ideologically loaded framework that threatens the integrity of public education and opens the door to religiously motivated political interference in Florida’s schools. On Nov. 13, the Florida Board of Education unanimously voted to ratify and adopt the “Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.” The declaration was authored by the Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 2025, which aims to dismantle civil rights protections, weaken the federal government and promote religious favoritism. Several of the declaration’s principles echo Project 2025’s proposals to expand school vouchers, promote religious instruction with public funds, and curtail diversity and civil rights efforts.
“On its surface, the Phoenix Declaration wraps itself in pleasant language about truth, virtue and goodness,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “Underneath, it is a Trojan horse for Christian nationalist ideology and a blueprint for undermining public education in favor of conservative religious priorities.”
The declaration includes several statements that appear benign on their face but reveal a deeper ideological agenda when read in context.
On “objective truth” and morality, the document states: “Students should learn that there is objective truth and that it is knowable. Science courses must be grounded in reality, not ideological fads. Students should learn that good and evil exist, and that human beings have the capacity and duty to choose good.”
Language like this has been routinely used by Christian nationalist groups to cast evidence-based teaching about gender, sexuality and modern science as “ideological fads,” while elevating religious beliefs about morality as neutral “truth.”
On cultural transmission, the declaration asserts: “True progress comes only by building on what has been learned and achieved in the past. Students should therefore learn about America’s founding principles and roots in the broader Western and Judeo-Christian traditions.”
This explicitly frames public education through a sectarian lens. The United States is not founded on “Judeo-Christian traditions” as a governing principle, and public schools cannot privilege one religious heritage over the nation’s actual pluralistic history.
On civics and patriotism, it promotes the “revival” of rituals such as the Pledge of Allegiance and national anthem, stating: “Our shared civic rituals, such as the Pledge of Allegiance and national anthem, should be respected and revived.”
Public schools already teach civics and many include patriotic observances while also respecting students’ constitutional right not to participate. Positioning these rituals as in need of a revival echoes the Heritage Foundation’s broader narrative that public schools have abandoned patriotism, a claim unsupported by evidence and used to justify its proposed ideological interventions.
Multiple citizens attended the Florida Board of Education’s meeting to object, calling the Phoenix Declaration “white Christian nationalist ideology.”
“It’s clear that the Phoenix Declaration is not an educational framework. It is a political document shrouded in inspirational language,” says Gaylor. “Public schools exist to educate, not to indoctrinate students into the Heritage Foundation’s preferred religious or political ideology.”
Several drafting committee members and signatories of the declaration represent organizations openly committed to religious education, Christian nationalism or the dismantling of secular public institutions. Their involvement reveals the project’s true intention: reshaping public schools to reflect conservative religious priorities and undermining the constitutional precept that the government must remain neutral on matters of religion.
“Every child in Florida deserves a high-quality, fully funded, secular public education,” adds Gaylor. “They deserve science grounded in evidence, history grounded in facts and civics grounded in constitutional principles, not a religiously infused political program that uses schools as a battleground for culture war agendas.”
FFRF urges Floridians to report any constitutional violations that arise as the Phoenix Declaration begins to influence curriculum, policy and teacher training in Florida. FFRF will continue to monitor implementation and stand up for the rights of Florida’s students and families to receive an education free from religious coercion and manipulation.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with 42,000 members and several chapters nationwide, including more than 2,000 members and a chapter in Florida. FFRF’s purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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Ten Commandments displays blocked again by court order
Baptist News Global
By Jeff Brumley
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Ohio GOP advance public school religion bills; Democrats call it overreach
Cleveland.com (Cleveland, OH)
By Laura Hancock
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Exposed: Federal overreach hits Texas classrooms AGAIN
Glenn Beck News
By Staff
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Texas Judge Orders Schools to Remove Ten Commandments Displays
Catholics for Catholics
By Staff
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North Texas districts must remove Ten Commandments posters after federal judge’s ruling
Texas Metro News
By Staff
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Christie Golden!
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Happy birthday to Christie Golden!
Award-winning author Christie Golden has written over thirty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels and several original fantasy novels. An avid player of World of Warcraft, she has written two manga short stories and several novels in that world (Lord of the Clans, Rise of the Horde, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King) with a trilogy in the works. She has also written the StarCraft Dark Templar Trilogy, Firstborn, Shadow Hunters, and Twilight. Golden is currently writing three books in the major nine-book Star Wars series Fate of the Jedi, in collaboration with Aaron Allston and Troy Denning. Her first book in the series, Omen, is slated for publication in July of 2009. Golden lives in Colorado with her husband and two cats.
Check out the Christie Golden credit page to view more updates and a full list of credits!
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‘We Dissent’ tackles the Supreme Court case on “conversion therapy”
The newest episode of “We Dissent” takes on a difficult topic — the potential overturn of a ban on “conversion therapy” for minors.
On Episode 48, FFRF Deputy Legal Director Liz Cavell and Americans United Legal Director Rebecca Markert cover Chiles v. Salazar, the case before the Supreme Court seeking to strike down a Colorado law banning mental health professionals from practicing conversion therapy on children. They explain the details of the case and discuss the hypocrisy of a ruling striking down the ban. The duo also recounts the Oct. 7 oral arguments, where the majority of justices signaled support for a ruling that will nullify state laws in half the country protecting LGBTQ-plus youth from these discredited and harmful practices.
“We Dissent,” which first aired in May 2022, is a legal affairs show for atheists, agnostics and humanists, offering legal wisdom from the secular viewpoint of women lawyers. The show is a collaboration of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Americans United.
Find previous episodes here, which examine developments affecting the separation of church and state, particularly in the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts. Past episodes include discussions about court reform, religion behind bars and abortion, and also feature a range of expert guests.
Episodes are available at the “We Dissent” website, YouTube channel, Spotify or wherever your podcasts are found. Be sure to stay up to date with the “We Dissent” podcast on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Bluesky.
Tune in regularly at “We Dissent” for compelling legal discussion and insights!
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Freethought Radio – November 20, 2025
Herb Silverman tells us how he fought the state of South Carolina to allow atheists to run for public office, and Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, describes the state of abortion rights across the country.
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Liberals rejoice after Clinton judge blocks Texas law requiring 10 Commandments in schools
Blaze Media
By Joseph Mackinnon
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Texas Judge Orders Removal of Ten Commandments Displays in Schools
El-Balad
By Bassyonni
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Federal judge orders schools from 14 Texas districts to remove Ten Commandments displays, citing First Amendment
Click 2 Houston (Houston, TX)
By Isa Gonzalez-Montilla
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Judge orders Texas schools to remove Ten Commandments displays
The Christian Post
By Ian M. Giatti
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More Texas school districts ordered to take down Ten Commandments displays
K-12 Dive
By Anna Merod
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Parents’ rights groups, backed by conservative funders, bring the fight to Maine school boards
Central Maine
By Emily Duggan
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of November 20, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
FFRF’s ‘Secular Spotlight’ explores biblical misconceptions with a bible scholar
FFRF Co-President Dan Barker and IT Director Scott Knickelbine are joined on the latest episode of Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Secular Spotlight” by bible scholar and media personality Dan McClellan.
The trio discuss McClellan’s critiques of common religious dogmas like biblical inerrancy, divine inspiration and the belief that the bible speaks with one unified voice. McClellan explains how these ideas aren’t supported by evidence and are often used to reinforce power structures such as Christian nationalism. He also shows how certain believers selectively reinterpret or ignore conflicting passages to fit their ideology.
In the interview, McClellan offers this insight: “[The bible] has no inherent meeting; we’re the ones generating meaning. And that also means that pretty much every interpretation is debatable and we can come up with all kinds of ways to overrule or sidestep the most likely reading if we find it problematic for whatever reason.”
You can catch “Secular Spotlight” on YouTube. Previous episodes include an interview with Genetically Modified Skeptic Drew McCoy, and an episode with highlights from FFRF’s 48th Annual Convention. See our full playlist for more videos!
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with 42,000 members nationwide. FFRF’s purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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FFRF op-ed featured in Dayton, Ohio, newspaper
Ohio’s Dayton Daily News has published an op-ed written by a Freedom From Religion Foundation staffer warning against passage of a particularly troubling piece of legislation.
“Benjamin Franklin died in 1790. Yet Ohio House Bill 486, the ‘Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act,’ urges teachers to tell students that Franklin urged Thomas Paine to burn ‘The Age of Reason,’ a book Paine didn’t begin writing until 1793,” FFRF Regional Government Affairs Manager Mickey Dollens begins his column.
Dollens’ op-ed digs into the problematic bill by detailing the myriad historical inaccuracies it uses in an attempt to instill Christian nationalist teachings on Ohio public school students:
The bill’s sponsors claim teachers need extra permission to discuss religion’s positive role in history. However, Ohio’s current learning standards already require comprehensive instruction on religious influences throughout American history, from the “Pilgrims” in Grade 5 to the “Impact of Religion in Society” in high school. As Lucas George, Ohio’s 2022 History Teacher of the Year, confirmed: “We teach these topics because Ohio’s Learning Standards already require it.”
So why introduce legislation solving a nonexistent problem? The answer lies in what the bill actually does: It provides political cover for teaching a whitewashed, factually incorrect version of American religious history.
Beyond the Franklin impossibility, it claims that his prayer motion at the Constitutional Convention led to the hiring of chaplains. In reality, the convention rejected prayer. As Franklin himself wrote, “Everyone except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.” No chaplains were hired. The convention proceeded without prayer.
The bill references the “Black Robe Regiment,” which Ryan Jayne of the Freedom From Religion Foundation has pointed out is “a myth propagated by disgraced pseudo-historian David Barton.” No Revolutionary-era source uses this term. It’s modern fiction presented as historical fact.
These fabrications matter because they’re part of a larger pattern of distortion. The bill encourages teaching about the Puritans’ religious faith while ignoring the fact that they banished Roger Williams for promoting religious tolerance and fined anyone celebrating Christmas. As Lutheran Deacon Nick Bates testified in criticism of the bill, “presenting the Pilgrims as champions of religious freedom when they imposed a 5 shilling fine on people who celebrated Christmas” is historically dishonest.
The bill celebrates religious influences on civil rights without acknowledging what Bates revealed: “The majority of the church lined up against the Civil Rights Movement.” It’s particularly troubling that legislation named after someone who called the Civil Rights Act “a mistake” and an “anti-white weapon” claims to honor Martin Luther King’s legacy.
It has long been documented that key figures among the Founders, besides Paine, such as Thomas Jefferson, Franklin and James Madison, were deists who rejected revealed religions. The Declaration’s few references to “Nature’s God” were deliberately non-Christian, while our Constitution (the actual governing document) contains zero references to deities or Christianity.
The piece ends with a message regarding the true purpose of public education: “Students need critical thinking skills to understand how religion has both inspired and oppressed, how our secular Constitution protects everyone’s freedom of conscience, and how historical truth is often more complex than politically convenient narratives. When students are taught fairy tales instead of facts, they are robbed of the tools they need to navigate an increasingly complex world. Ohio lawmakers should reject House Bill 486 and let teachers continue teaching actual history, not politically motivated fiction.”
You can read the full op-ed here.
This column is part of FFRF’s initiative to engage with pertinent national and state issues and spread the messages of freethought and nontheism to a broader audience.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with 42,000 members and several chapters nationwide, including over 1,100 members and two chapters in Ohio. FFRF’s purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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San Antonio federal judge shuts down plan for Comal ISD, other districts to install Ten Commandments
San Antonio Current (San Antonio, TX)
By Sanford Nowlin
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Christian band faces pushback over public school concerts
Mission Network News
By Katey Hearth
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Federal judge orders some Texas schools not to display Ten Commandments
Express News
By Liz Teitz and Barry L. Harrell
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Federal judge blocks Ten Commandments display at Texas school districts like Conroe ISD
Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX)
By Haajrah Gilani
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Federal judge orders removal of Ten Commandments from some North Texas schools
Fox 4 KDFW (Dallas—Fort Worth, TX)
By Peyton Yager and Mack Shaw
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Texas Judge Blocks Law on Displaying Ten Commandments in School
Bloomberg Law
By Mallory Culhane and Ryan Autullo
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Judge orders Texas school districts to remove Ten Commandments displays from classrooms
KHOU 11 (Houston, TX)
By Ben Sawyers
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Florida attorney general sparks debate on religious discrimination
The Palm Beach Post (Palm Beach, FL)
By Stephany Matat
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Jim Johnson!
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Happy birthday to Jim Johnson!
Jim Johnson is the author of the Pistols and Pyramids weird Western series, the Potomac Shadows urban fantasy trilogy, and is the project manager and line editor for the Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game published by Modiphius Entertainment. When he’s not wrangling words or managing writers, Jim plays board games, card games, the occasional video game and reads as much as possible. He lives in historic Alexandria VA with his family and two marmalade cats. For more information, check out www.scribeineti.com. It might actually be updated by the time you visit.
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Judge orders Texas school districts to remove Ten Commandments displays
A federal judge today issued a preliminary injunction requiring certain public school districts in Texas to remove Ten Commandments displays by Dec. 1 and prohibiting them from posting new displays.
The order, a win for religious freedom and church-state separation, is in response to a new lawsuit filed Sept. 22 by a group of 15 multifaith and nonreligious families with children attending schools in the districts. In his order, U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia wrote that “displaying the Ten Commandments on the wall of a public-school classroom as set forth in SB 10 violates the Establishment Clause.” He added, “It is impractical, if not impossible, to prevent plaintiffs from being subjected to unwelcome religious displays without enjoining defendants from enforcing SB 10 across their districts.”
The order came in the case Cribbs Ringer v. Comal Independent School District, which was filed after the defendant school districts installed or were about to install Ten Commandments posters. The districts were proceeding with the displays despite Judge Fred Biery’s Aug. 20 order in a separate lawsuit, Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights ISD, in which he called the Texas law requiring the displays “plainly unconstitutional.” After that order was issued, the organizations representing families in both lawsuits sent letters to all Texas school districts urging them not to implement the law.
While today’s preliminary injunction directly applies to the defendant school districts named in the Cribbs Ringer lawsuit, the organizations behind the lawsuit are urging all Texas school districts not to implement SB 10. All school districts, even those that are not parties in either ongoing lawsuit, have an independent obligation to respect students’ and families’ rights under the U.S. Constitution, which supersedes state law.
The plaintiffs in both cases are represented by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP serving as pro bono counsel.
“I am relieved that as a result of today’s ruling, my children, who are among a small number of Jewish children at their schools, will no longer be continually subjected to religious displays,” says plaintiff Lenee Bien-Willner (she/her). “The government has no business interfering with parental decisions about matters of faith.”
“We’re extremely happy to have secured this victory for the plaintiff families we represent,” says Sam Grover (he/him), senior counsel, Freedom From Religion Foundation. “But Texas never should have put parents and students in this position in the first place. The law is quite clear that pushing religion on students in public school is unconstitutional.”
“Today’s ruling is yet another affirmation of what Texans already know: The First Amendment guarantees families and faith communities — not the government — the right to instill religious beliefs in our children,” says Chloe Kempf (she/her), staff attorney for the ACLU of Texas. “Our schools are for education, not evangelization. This ruling protects thousands of Texas students from ostracization, bullying, and state-mandated religious coercion. Every school district in Texas is now on notice that implementing S.B. 10 violates their students’ constitutional rights.”
“Once again, a federal court has recognized that the Constitution bars public schools from forcing religious scripture on students,” says Daniel Mach (he/him), director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. “This decision is a victory for religious liberty and a reminder that government officials shouldn’t pay favorites with faith.”
“All Texas public school districts should heed the court’s clear warning: It’s plainly unconstitutional to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms,” says Rachel Laser (she/her), president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. “Families throughout Texas and across the country get to decide how and when their children engage with religion — not politicians or public-school officials.”
“We are grateful to the court for its swift and decisive action,” says Jon Youngwood (he/him), global co-chair of Simpson Thacher’s Litigation Department. “This ruling reaffirms a foundational principle: families — not public schools — have the right to determine how and when their children engage with matters of faith. The Constitution protects that choice, and schools should not be impeding it.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With 42,000 members, FFRF advocates for freethinkers’ rights across the globe. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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“Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Nana Visitor‘s “Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek”:
Occasionally, on Deep Space Spines and in meatspace, I have been accused of expressing certain ideas in a way that makes it clear that I have no interest whatsoever in discussion or debate. The specific word that gets used in most such cases tends to be strident. I’ve dialed the attitude back some as the years have passed, but I still let it poke unassumingly out of its burrow from time to time. Except for today, when I’m grabbing it with both hands, dragging it fully out, and holding it aloft like Rafiki in The Lion King to say this:
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Alan Dean Foster!
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Happy birthday to Alan Dean Foster!
Alan Dean Foster is a prolific science fiction and fantasy author. He is credited with writing the story for what became Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Born in New York City, Foster went to the University of California, Los Angeles. He currently lives in Prescott, Arizona with his wife.
As a novelist, Foster wrote Ballantine Books’ line of Star Trek: The Animated Series novelizations, titled the Star Trek Logs, and a new, serialized essay on the writing of those Logs, which was included with the five 2006 trade paperback reprint omnibuses. He also wrote a number of the Star Trek stories released by Peter Pan Records. In 2009, Foster wrote the novelization for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. Foster also wrote an original novel based on the movie, Refugees, which is currently “on hold” following executive decisions at Pocket. He also wrote the novelization of the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness. Foster had the chance to watch the films before writing their novelizations, which according to Greg Cox is unheard of in the industry.
Foster’s best known works are his series of science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar union of species similar to the United Federation of Planets. He is also known for his novels featuring his two most popular characters, a young empath named Flinx and his companion, Pip. Foster’s most popular fantasy books are those of the Spellsinger series.
In addition, Foster is known for writing novelizations of many feature film screenplays. Among these is the novelization for the 2007 film Transformers and the sequel Revenge of the Fallen, which, like Star Trek, were based on screenplays by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Other film scripts he has novelized include Star Wars: Episodes IV – A New Hope and VII – The Force Awakens, the first three Alien films, John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Last Starfighter, Alien Nation, The Chronicles of Riddick, and Terminator: Salvation.
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Preview of “Star Trek: The Last Starship #2”
Here’s a preview of Star Trek: The Last Starship #2 by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing which is due to be released this Wednesday on November 19, 2025 at your local comic shop and digital retailers:
When a distress call from the Klingon Empire pierces the silence—urgent, cryptic, and unexpected—Sato doesn’t hesitate. Whatever the risk, he will answer. Because if Starfleet’s legacy is to survive, it won’t be through retreat. It’ll be through action.
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of November 18, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
Supreme Court protects students’ rights in rejecting loudspeaker prayer push
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to leave in place a sound victory for the rights of students and families to be free from state-conveyed religious coercion.
The court’s denial of certiorari — issued with no noted dissents — in Cambridge Christian School v. Florida High School Athletic Association lets stand both its landmark 2000 ruling in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, barring school-sponsored prayer at football games, and a strong 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision finding that pregame messages over the public-address system at state championship games constitute government speech. The Supreme Court’s quiet refusal to take the case is a loud affirmation that public school events cannot be transformed into religious revivals.
“This is an important win for the constitutional rights of students and their families,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “The Supreme Court’s refusal to revisit Santa Fe makes clear that public school athletic events are not opportunities for government-sponsored prayer.”
The Tampa-based Cambridge Christian School has spent nearly a decade attempting to force the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) to broadcast its prayer over the stadium loudspeaker before a 2015 championship football game. The school argued that denying it access to the PA system violated its free speech and free exercise rights. But as both the district court and the 11th Circuit held — and as the Supreme Court left untouched — the PA system at a state-sponsored, neutral-site championship is government-controlled and used solely for government speech.
FFRF filed an amicus brief with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022 urging the court to reject Cambridge Christian’s demand for special treatment: “A private religious school does not have a constitutional right to commandeer the PA system at a state-sponsored athletic competition. The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment only protects private speech, it does not implicate government speech.”
“This whole case was an example of Christian privilege run amok,” says FFRF Senior Litigation Counsel Sam Grover, who drafted FFRF’s amicus brief. “If the Florida High School Athletic Association had opened its loudspeaker for private messages, Cambridge Christian could have claimed a right to equal access. But that wasn’t the situation. The loudspeaker was for government use only. The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case demonstrates how utterly wrong Cambridge Christian was on the law.”
The Supreme Court’s denial ensures that the constitutional guardrails around public school events remain intact. Students and families at state-organized athletic contests are entitled to enjoy the game without being subjected to religious proselytizing by a government-controlled PA system.
“This case was a blatant attempt to force a captive audience into Christian worship at a public event,” Gaylor adds. “The First Amendment protects us all — Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, and everyone else — from exactly that kind of state-sponsored religious coercion.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with 42,000 members and several chapters nationwide, including more than 2,000 members and a chapter in Florida. FFRF’s purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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“Star Trek: 86 My Brother’s Keeper Book 2: Constitution” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: 86 My Brother’s Keeper Book 2: Constitution”:
In today’s episode, when Kirk lets everyone know he’ll be alone in his bunk, he means it. But when the line of succession leaves him in the hot seat on the bridge, he has to learn on the fly who to sacrifice and when. Do Jim and Gary still have the romantic chemistry they had at the Academy? What’s up with all the cover-ups? And is there a satisfying secret option for Kirk to take this time? All this and more in Constitution, the book that wants to know if you would like to know (what’s) more.
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Religious freedom fight grows in Massachusetts community over statues honoring police and firefighters
Fox News
By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire” Review by Positivelytrek.com
Positivelytrek.com has added a new review for David Mack‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire”:
In this episode of Positively Trek, hosts Dan Gunther and the returning Bruce Gibson welcome special guest David Mack back to the show! He’s here to discuss his latest novel: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire!
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“Star Trek #9” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Len Wein‘s “Star Trek #9”:
Len Wein takes over writing duties for Gold Keys Star Trek title, while Alberto Giolitti continues delivering wonderful art (even if the characters and locations don’t always look the way the should). Found on comic spinners for February 1971, Wein’s first story was The Legacy of Lazarus.
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Happy 2025 Birthday to Jeff Bond!
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Happy birthday to Jeff Bond!
Jeff Bond is an American magazine editor and writer, currently editor in chief of Geek Monthly. He is perhaps best known for the many reviews and columns he wrote as contributing editor for Film Score Monthly starting in the mid 1990s; as well as liner notes for CD film score releases, for example the 40th Anniversary editions of the James Bond movie scores. He is the author of The Music of Star Trek: Profiles in Style (1999). Jeff Bond lives in Burbank, California.
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“Star Trek: 85 My Brother’s Keeper Book 1: Republic” Review by Deepspacespines.com
Deepspacespines.com has added a new review for Michael Jan Friedman‘s “Star Trek: 85 My Brother’s Keeper Book 1: Republic”:
In today’s episode, Kirk is wracked with guilt when he has to put an old friend down. But when Spock decides that giving his captain an opportunity to yap about his feelings will help him understand humanity better, he ends up getting an earful about a former boyfriend. Where did James “R.” Kirk come from? Do aunts and uncles make better parents? And what makes someone a “walking freezer unit”? All this and more in Republic, the book that has no time for people who can’t make the jump.
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Carlson–Fuentes controversy reveals the antisemitism embedded in Christian nationalism
The Heritage Foundation, which brought us Project 2025, is deservedly reeling from the backlash over its support for Tucker Carlson’s recent friendly interview with hatemonger Nick Fuentes.
During Carlson’s interview, Fuentes, known for his antisemitic views and unabashed advocacy of white nationalism, advocated for a “pro-white,” Christian movement, saying that “organized Jewry” undermines American cohesion. Fuentes, 27, leads a white, male, Christian movement known as “Groypers,” and has leveraged his sizable online platform to spread racist and extremist rhetoric — including a 2021 interview with Alex Jones in which he claimed that non-Christians, including Jews, have no place in Western civilization. During the Tucker-Carlson conversation, Carlson neither addressed those past remarks nor challenged Fuentes, a notorious Holocaust denier, when he asserted that Jews are not loyal Americans. The interview, which lasted more than two hours, has been seen over 20 million times.
Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, chief architect of Project 2025 and a devout Roman Catholic, initially defended Carlson for hosting Fuentes. After an immediate blowback began against Carlson for giving Fuentes a platform, Roberts charged on a social media post on Oct. 30 that a “venomous coalition” was trying to cancel Carlson and vowed: “The Heritage Foundation didn’t become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people or policing the consciences of Christians, and we won’t start doing that now.”
After saying “antisemitism should be condemned,” Roberts went on to use an antisemitic dog whistle — referring to “the globalist class” — and promised that Carlson would always be a friend.
When at least five staff members of the Heritage Foundation resigned over Roberts’ social media post, Roberts walked back some of his comments. Facing calls to resign from his $800,000-a-year post, Roberts subsequently pleaded ignorance, blaming an aide, who later resigned, for writing the post.
Justice requires that this debacle should result in Roberts losing his position at the Heritage Foundation. But don’t hold your breath. Roberts kept his position even after warning last year of violence against the left: “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Fuentes targets not only Jewish people but anyone outside his narrow religious framework. In 2023, Fuentes called for the death penalty for all non-Christians: “There is an occult element at the high levels of society, and specifically among the Jews, and you know, whenever I see that stuff that just makes me want to proclaim louder and more firmly and more rigidly that it is nothing other than Jesus Christ. No, no pagan stuff, no false gods, no deities, no demons. It is Jesus Christ and we need to start saying that name.”
Fuentes went on to declare that those who “worship false gods” or “practice magic or rituals” should be executed “when we take power.” He later expanded on his vision of a theocratic America: “We need to put up a crucifix in every home, in every room, in every school and every government office to signal Christ’s reign over our country. … This is not the domain of atheists or devil worshipers or perfidious Jews. This is Christ’s country. … You must be a Christian. And you must submit to Christianity.”
Notably, Donald Trump invited Fuentes to dine with him in 2022.
Antisemitism, which is rising in America, must be condemned unequivocally, as the Freedom From Religion Foundation has consistently done. That condemnation must also extend to Nick Fuentes, his supporters, and the broader movements of white supremacy and Christian nationalism. Antisemitism is not an accident within white Christian nationalism; it is baked into an ideology that insists political power in the United States should belong only to certain white, male Christians.
“The controversy highlights a moral crisis among public figures who continue to blur the line between faith and fanaticism — and it also shows the grave danger of normalizing those who preach bigotry in the name of religion,” says Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-president. “If mainstream conservative leaders can’t draw the line at hobnobbing with Hitler buffs, much less open calls for execution and theocracy, where do they draw the line?”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With 42,000 members, FFRF advocates for freethinkers’ rights across the globe. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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“Klingon Next Door: Off Duty the Warrior’s Way” Review by Geekgirlauthority.com
Geekgirlauthority.com has added a new review for Joey Spiotto‘s “Klingon Next Door: Off Duty the Warrior’s Way”:
Are you a Trekkie on the lookout for an adorable picture book that will give you a few chuckles (and a cursory introduction to the Klingon language)? Then beam aboard Star Trek: Klingon Next Door: Off Duty the Warrior’s Way by Joey Spiotto. And if not for yourself, this cute and occasionally groan-worthy (complimentary) picture book could be a perfect gift this holiday season.
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Middle School Teacher Ordered to Stop Teaching About Creationism
Todd Starnes
By Todd Starnes
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ACLU sends letter urging Kern County Board of Education to oppose Ten Commandments display at its schools
KGET 17 News (Bakersfield, CA)
By Sangmin Kim
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Kern County Board of Education delays decision on Ten Commandments display
ABC Bakersfield 23 (Bakersfield, CA)
By Madi Vollmer
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Should The Ten Commandments Be Displayed In Schools?
KVPR Valley Public Radio (Fresno, CA)
By Jonathan Linden and Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado
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“Star Trek: Khan” Review by Musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog
Musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog has added a new review for David Mack and George Takei and Kirsten Beyer and Maury Sterling and Mercy Malick and Naveen Andrews and Nicholas Meyer and Olli Haaskivi and Sonya Cassidy and Tim Russ and Wrenn Schmidt and Zuri Washington‘s “Star Trek: Khan”:
“Star Trek: Khan” was conceived as a live-action Paramount+ miniseries that would be written by writer/producer/director Nicholas Meyer (“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”) which would chronicle the exile of Star Trek antagonist Khan Noonian Singh and his genetically-engineered ‘augment’ loyalists on the doomed planet of Ceti Alpha V (following the events of the Star Trek TOS episode “Space Seed” from 1967). Meyer wrote three script treatments before the project was ultimately cancelled. However, longtime Star Trek writer/producer Kirsten Beyer (“Star Trek: Voyager” “Star Trek: Discovery”) and Trek novelist David Mack took Meyer’s treatments and expanded them into a cheaper-to-produce audio drama podcast for curious fans. The podcast series would also be available for free via YouTube, Apple Podcasts and other venues.
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Freethought Radio – November 13, 2025
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie tells us how we can defend democracy against the threat of Christian nationalism.
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire” Review by Scifichick.com
Scifichick.com has added a new review for David Mack‘s “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ring of Fire”:
I know I’ve been reviewed several Star Trek books lately… What can I say? It’s a good time to be a Trekkie with all of this new content!
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FFRF and allies urge Calif. education board to reject 10 Commandments displays
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, the ACLU of Southern California, the national ACLU, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, have sent a joint letter to the Kern County Board of Education urging it to reject a proposed resolution mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in county schools.
The board is scheduled to consider the measure at its meeting in Bakersfield tonight, Thursday, Nov. 13, at 6 p.m. The proposal would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed alongside other documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, in five of the district’s six alternative education schools. The board will also consider whether to hire the Christian nationalist Liberty Counsel to represent the board.
This is a renewed drive by some on the board. Last December, the board considered posting the Ten Commandments in every classroom, but did not move forward with the proposal after strong pushback from FFRF and local community members.
In the letter, the groups explain that requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools would violate both the California Constitution and the U.S. Constitution. The California Constitution’s “No Preference,” “No Aid” and “Teaching Religious Doctrine” clauses provide even stronger protections for state/church separation than the federal Establishment Clause — and clearly prohibit government bodies from promoting religious texts.
“The Ten Commandments are not a set of universal civic principles,” the letter states. “Requiring students of faiths that do not recognize the religious symbolism of the Decalogue to be forced to come into contact either in school lobbies, classrooms, or other places in schools with a religious display that is of no religious significance to them and daily observe the Ten Commandments demonstrates a clear preference for those religions that revere the Commandments.”
The letter points out that California courts have already ruled that such displays violate the state Constitution, citing the DiLoreto v. Board of Education decision, which held that posting the Ten Commandments in public schools favors Judaism and Christianity to the exclusion of other faiths. The groups also note that the displays would run afoul of longstanding U.S. Supreme Court precedent, including Stone v. Graham (1980), which struck down a nearly identical law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
Beyond the legal violations, the letter warns that forcing religious symbols into schools would divide the community and marginalize students of minority faiths and nonreligious families: “Many students and families will oppose the displays, not because they are anti-religion, but because they hold dear the ability to determine their religious beliefs and practices for themselves, without the government’s interference or pressure.”
FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor comments, “This proposal isn’t about history — it’s about using the machinery of government to promote a specific religion. Kern County has no business telling a captive audience of children how many gods to worship, which gods to worship or whether to worship any gods at all! The First Commandment is the antithesis of our First Amendment and clearly shows why it does not belong in our public schools.”
FFRF emphasizes that the government has no authority to impose or favor any particular set of religious beliefs, and that students in California’s public schools are entitled to an inclusive environment free from religious coercion.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with 42,000 members and several chapters nationwide, including more than 5,300 members and two local chapters in California. FFRF’s purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
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FFRF investigates ‘America 250’ partnership with Christian nationalist Sean Feucht
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling for transparency and accountability following revelations that the Trump administration is planning a series of taxpayer-supported Christian nationalist “revival” events tied to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Earlier this year, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner joined Christian nationalist worship leader and political activist Sean Feucht to host a worship service on the National Mall — an event that FFRF criticized at the time as an egregious misuse of government authority to promote religion.
Now, Feucht has publicly boasted that he is working directly with members of the Trump administration to stage similar worship events across the country in conjunction with America’s 250th anniversary celebration. Speaking during his “Courageous Christianity Tour” at a California church in October, Feucht claimed that “the U.S. government invited us” to hold worship services and that he recently met with the federal “America 250” team to plan “revival meetings sponsored by the U.S. government all across the nation,” including a large-scale “Let Us Worship” rally at Mount Rushmore.
“These are deeply alarming claims,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “The United States government has no business sponsoring Christian revival events — period. The 250th anniversary of our founding should celebrate freedom, reason and equality, not serve as a pulpit for religious proselytizing.”
FFRF is filing Freedom of Information Act requests with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Education and other federal offices to determine the extent to which taxpayer resources or official support are being used to promote or facilitate these sectarian worship events. The state/church watchdog is prepared to take legal and advocacy steps necessary to challenge federal plans to turn the nation’s semiquincentennial commemoration into sectarian and exclusionary events.
“Our Founders fought a revolution to establish a government free from religious control,” adds FFRF Co-President Dan Barker. “The only way to honor the Declaration of Independence is to uphold its spirit of liberty — not to turn national celebrations into government-sponsored church services.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With 42,000 members, FFRF advocates for freethinkers’ rights across the globe. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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“Star Trek #10” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Len Wein‘s “Star Trek #10”:
In May of 1971, Gold Keys delivered another installment in their Star Trek adventures. This is story writer Len Wein’s second issue. Alberto Giolitti continues to deliver art that is slowly embracing more of what we have seen in the series (as well as some odd additions). This issue, Sceptre of the Sun eschewed the photo montage for the cover, and featured art by George Wilson.
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DTI Comic Book Investigation for the week of November 13, 2025
Here are all the comics printed this week in years past.
“Star Trek: Red Shirts #3” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Red Shirts #3”:
Things are about to get even more complicated for the away team in this week’s Star Trek: Red Shirts. As Christopher Cantwell’s riveting series hits the mid-way point there are yet more twists to be uncovered. But with the enemy still yet to be revealed to our Starfleet heroes. Can the series maintain its momentum amongst all the mystery?
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“Star Trek: Red Shirts #3” Review by Aiptcomics.com
Aiptcomics.com has added a new review for Christopher Cantwell‘s “Star Trek: Red Shirts #3”:
Star Trek: Red Shirts #3, written by Christopher Cantwell with art by Megan Levens and colors by Charlie Kirchoff, continues the greatest Star Trek horror-themed story that you never knew you wanted. 12 Starfleet Security Officers aka “Red Shirts” are on a top-secret mission on the backwater world of Arkonia 89 to capture members of a mysterious alien band of spies trying to steal the Federation’s deepest secrets (including the schematics for the fleet). As issue #3 begins, five members of the Security team have already been killed. Will any of the remaining Red Shirts survive, or will they all die protecting the Federation’s secrets?
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“Star Trek: Lower Decks #12” Review by Getyourcomicon.co.uk
Getyourcomicon.co.uk has added a new review for Tim Sheridan‘s “Star Trek: Lower Decks #12”:
When last we saw the crew of Star Trek: Lower Decks they were arriving in 1985 San Francisco. Tim Sheridan’s hilarious Voyage Home-inspired story continues to show the lighter side of Trek’s social commentary.
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“Star Trek: Voyager Omnibus” Review by Scifichick.com
Scifichick.com has added a new review for Dave Baker and Paul Allor‘s “Star Trek: Voyager Omnibus”:
First, in Seven’s Reckoning, a chance encounter with a reptilian alien race draws Seven of Nine and the rest of the U.S.S. Voyager crew into an ancient class conflict that’s on the brink of exploding into all-out war! Set during Star Trek: Voyager‘s amazing fourth season, Seven finds her newfound humanity in conflict with her commitment to the Prime Directive. When she finally makes her choice, will it have the desired result? And will there still be a place for her aboard Voyager once the dust clears? By writer Dave Baker and artist Angel Hernandez.
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“Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #2” Review by Comicon.com
Comicon.com has added a new review for Susan Bridges and Tilly Bridges‘s “Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #2”:
You don’t need to be a Star Trek fan to appreciate this limited series about the prelude to an alien invasion of Earth. It helps, of course, but the story is fast-paced with plenty of strong plot points and mysteries. Some strong art brings the story alive.
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Preview of “The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks”
Here’s a preview of The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks by Megan Treviño which is due to be released this Tuesday on May 5, 2026 at your local book stores, comic shops, and digital retailers:
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the art of this fan-favorite series!
Climb aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos with its crew in this special look at the art of the critically acclaimed animated series. With special sections focusing on characters, ships, backgrounds, and scenery, you’ll know the lower decks better than the crew!
Also included will be interviews with members of the art team, who provide special insights into the making of the series and the art process.
Star Trek Books Coming In The Next 30 Days, as of November 11, 2025
Fiction
By: Greg Cox
November 18, 2025This all-new Star Trek novel celebrates the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series—continuing the legacy of Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise. 2269: The prospect of peace had seemed unattainable until the assistance of the Federation. Finally, countless ancient enemies have stopped their conflicts simply by listening to […]
Comics
By: Tim Sheridan
November 12, 2025It’s time for a long-overdue second contact with the species with whom the U.S.S. Cerritos made its first first contact: the Laapeerians. But when the crew arrives on Laapeeria bearing gifts, Freeman and company are shocked to discover the entire planet has been abandoned! While all the dwellings and infrastructure remain, there isn’t a soul […]
By: Robbie Thompson
November 12, 2025Aboard the Enterprise, chaos erupts as Poilant drones attack without warning. With the ship under fire, Ortegas must push her piloting skills to the limit to buy Uhura a narrow window—one last chance to reconnect with their stranded crew and unlock the deadly mystery hidden within Poilant’s strange, ancient symbols. Meanwhile, on a desperate mission […]
By: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
November 19, 2025In the wake of the cataclysm known as the Burn, the dream of a united Federation stands on the brink of extinction. The only thing holding the Galaxy back from chaos is Captain Sato and the crew of the Borg-enhanced Omega—a ship fueled by transwarp technology and fraught with distrust. No one on board trusts […]
By: Susan Bridges, Tilly Bridges
November 26, 2025To save the Federation—and the entire Alpha Quadrant—Captain Janeway made the ultimate sacrifice: deleting Species 8472’s data on opening a singularity into normal space. Now, Voyager is stranded in fluidic space…and 8472 wants them dead. Hunted by a relentless alien fleet, Janeway and her crew go on the run, weaving through planets and asteroid fields […]
By: Christopher Cantwell
December 3, 2025Only two red shirts remain. The other ten crewmembers on Mission Squawkbox have plummeted hundreds of feet to the ground, been eaten alive by giant alien insects, or been exploded into a million tiny bits by falling torpedoes. Each death has dealt a blow to Ensigns Raad’s and Miller’s morale… Is Starfleet really the paragon […]
By: Robbie Thompson
December 12, 2025The Seed has taken hold—body, mind, and soul. Now under its control, Una and Jinare have become relentless drones, driven by vengeance. As Chapel struggles to untangle the lies binding them together, La’An, Spock, Scotty, and D6 fight to reconnect with the Enterprise…but first, they must survive the crushing abyss—and a colossal sentient squid guarding […]
DTI Treklit Investigation for the week of November 11, 2025
Here’s a look at the books printed this week in the past.
FFRF cheers Supreme Court refusal of appeal to undo marriage equality
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to reject a misguided appeal seeking to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 ruling that guaranteed marriage equality nationwide.
The court declined to hear Davis v. Ermold, an appeal by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who was seeking to escape liability for denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of the law and a federal court order back in 2015. The denial brings a decisive and welcome end to a long-running effort by Davis and her backers at the Christian nationalist legal outfit, Liberty Counsel, to undo one of the most significant civil rights victories in modern history.
“The Supreme Court’s refusal to revisit Obergefell is a reaffirmation that our government must treat all families equally, regardless of religion,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “Love won a decade ago — and love wins again today.”
FFRF is honored that Obergefell v. Hodges plaintiff Jim Obergefell will be a featured speaker at FFRF’s 49th Annual National Convention next October in Milwaukee, receiving its “Forward” Award.
Davis became infamous for defying her oath of office and refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Obergefell decision. Her refusal violated a federal court order, led to several lawsuits and, ultimately, hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees. Liberty Counsel — one of the nation’s most aggressive Christian nationalist legal organizations — has spent years trying to use Davis’ case as a vehicle to roll back LGBTQ-plus rights and impose religious privilege in public office.
“Liberty Counsel’s crusade to overturn marriage equality is about one thing: imposing its narrow religious perspective on everyone else, and the Supreme Court was right to reject that,” adds FFRF Legal Counsel Chris Line, who predicted that the court would reject Davis’ appeal.
The Obergefell decision, authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2015, remains one of the great affirmations of personal liberty in American history. Nearly 600,000 same-sex couples have since married, strengthening families and communities across the nation. The ruling stands as a testament to the Constitution’s promise of equal protection and the importance of keeping religion out of government.
“Jim Obergefell has truly moved society forward,” says Gaylor. “We can’t wait to celebrate his legacy — and today’s reaffirmation of that legacy — with him in person.”
FFRF remains vigilant as Christian nationalist groups continue to attack LGBTQ-plus rights under the guise of “religious freedom,” and will continue defending true religious liberty — the right of all Americans to live free from government-imposed religion and religious discrimination.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With more than 42,000 members, FFRF advocates for freethinkers’ rights across the globe. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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February 6-7, 2026 – Dan Barker to Debate at The Gospel Truth Conference 2026 in Dallas (Rowlett, TX)
The Gospel Truth has announced the lineup for its upcoming Gospel Truth Conference 2026, set to take place at Restoration Church Dallas in Rowlett, Texas. The two-day event will feature some of the nation’s most prominent Christian and secular thinkers in a series of live debates, including Dan Barker, Co-President of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). Barker, a former evangelical minister turned atheist, will take the stage opposite Elias Ayala for a debate titled “Does God Exist?”
The conference will also include debates between:
- Dr. James White and Dr. Dustin Smith – Does the Bible Teach the Trinity?
- Anthony Rogers and Trent Horn – Sola Scriptura
- Avery Austin (God Logic) and Jake the Muslim Metaphysician – Does Islam Teach the Entire Bible Is True?
Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with debaters, enjoy local food trucks, and explore differing perspectives on theology, faith, and reason!
Event Details:
February 6–7, 2026
Restoration Church Dallas, 4309 Main Street, Rowlett, TX
Tickets: $70 | Free parking | Refunds up to 7 days before the event
For tickets and full schedule information, click here.
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FFRF honors all veterans — including ‘atheists in foxholes’ — on Veterans Day
It’s never been more important to acknowledge nonreligious and non-Christian veterans — including the proverbial “atheists in foxholes” — given the Pentagon’s recent attacks on the constitutional separation between religion and government.
Journalist Ernie Pyle regrettably promulgated the myth during World War II that “there are no atheists in foxholes.” In actuality, more than 20 percent of FFRF’s 42,000 members are veterans, and a quarter of active duty military identify as nonreligious or “no religious preference.” Nonreligious military and vets historically have gone unacknowledged or subjected to proselytizing.
That situation has grown worse recently, as the Pentagon becomes infused with religion and Christian nationalism under “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth’s misdirection. Hegseth hosted an evangelical prayer service during the middle of the workday at the Pentagon in May, called the “Secretary of Defense Christian Prayer and Worship Service.” Hegseth said at that event that “this is precisely where I need to be, exactly where we need to be as a nation, at this moment in prayer, on bended knee, recognizing the providence of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Hegseth, on his official “X” site, published a prayer and video of himself reciting the Lord’s Prayer. At the memorial for Kirk, Hegseth declared that the United States is in a “spiritual war.” He urged viewers to “put Christ at the center of your life.”
Religion News Service reports that the Department of Defense has featured at least three videos with faith themes, including one quoting from the bible, captioned, “We are One Nation Under God.” Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson told the news agency that the videos exemplify Hegseth’s efforts to celebrate the country’s Christian roots “despite the Left’s efforts to remove our Christian heritage from our great nation,” adding that “Secretary Hegseth is among those who embrace it.”
FFRF’s unique monument is made of the same granite as Mount Rushmore. It serves as a testament to the U.S. military’s diversity in the face of Hegseth’s theocratic propaganda. It is found in FFRF’s Rose Zerwick Memorial Courtyard and Patio outside Freethought Hall, FFRF’s bustling office building in downtown Madison, Wis. (World War II veteran Joseph Cunningham, a nonagenarian longtime FFRF member and former Board member, is pictured in front of the monument.)
Veterans, their families and active duty freethinkers are cordially invited to come visit and contemplate FFRF’s “Atheists in Foxholes” monument, which honors freethinking veterans and their service.
The words, penned by FFRF principal founder Anne Nicol Gaylor, read:
In Memory of
Atheists in Foxholes
And the countless freethinkers who have served this country with honor and distinction.
Presented by the Freedom From Religion Foundation with hope that in the future humankind may learn to avoid all war.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters of nontheism. With about 42,000 members, FFRF advocates for freethinkers’ rights across the globe. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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“Star Trek #13” Review by Themindreels.com
Themindreels.com has added a new review for Len Wein‘s “Star Trek #13”:
In February of 1972 the Enterprise continued to boldly go. Dark Traveler was written, once again, by Len Wein, featured art by Alberto Giolitti and another painted cover by George Wilson.
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