Big News for Godless in Dixie in 2015
I‘ve got several exciting (for me) things to announce: 1. First Funding Milestone Reached In addition to teaching high school full-time, I’ve held down a weekend retail job for the last four years....
View ArticleBaptists Should Know Better Than to Declare the Bible the Official State Book
Earlier this month, state representatives in my home state of Mississippi proposed two separate bills which would establish the Bible as the official state book. Both major political parties are...
View ArticleSex as a Southern Woman: A Story of Shame
[Today’s guest post is written by Holly Baer, a student of religion and gender studies at the University of Mississippi.] Three months before my seventeenth birthday, I sat in my room with anxious...
View ArticleNot All Mississippians Are This Backwards, But Some Are (Video)
The struggle is real, y’all. First of all, let me say up front that #NotAllMississippians talk the way this guy talks. Not all residents of The Hospitality State hate all the same things this guy...
View ArticleMy School System Really Doesn’t Get What the Establishment Clause Means
A few weeks ago I finally wrote out a little bit of the story of how and when I decided to start writing about my departure from the Christian faith, along with the consequences I encountered for doing...
View ArticleOle Miss Takes Down the State Flag for Good
This morning as students at the University of Mississippi (aka “Ole Miss“) trudged their way through the drizzly remnants of what used to be Hurricane Patricia, campus police officers were permanently...
View ArticleWhen State Representatives Try to Kill Their Own Educational System
This fall after teaching high school and middle school for 15 years, I finally turned in my lanyard and took a break from teaching. I can’t tell you for certain that I’ll never go back because who...
View ArticleMississippi Votes Against Its Own Best Interests, Again
Yesterday my state voted against adequately funding my children’s education. I’m just heartsick this morning. So incredibly disappointed. And the voting results don’t even make sense when you add them...
View ArticleCondescension Isn’t Kindness
Recently, an article ran about the award I received from the Freedom From Religion Foundation in the Clarion Ledger and was later reprinted by the Hattiesburg American. I received the first ever Yip...
View ArticleCamp Quest Is Coming to Mississippi!
If you know anything about camps in the region of the country where I live, you know that they’re almost uniformly religious in nature. Even the ones which conceal their religious affiliations tend to...
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