Rick Snedeker
Rick Snedeker is a retired American journalist and nonfiction author who lives in South Dakota. His two award-winning books are “Holy Smoke: How Christianity Smothered the True American Dream” (2020), and “3,001 Arabian Days” (2018), a memoir of growing up in a Saudi Arabian oil camp in the 1950s.
Posts by Rick Snedeker
Do Small-Town Newspapers Discriminate against Nonbelief?
What’s the chance you’ve ever read a column about agnosticism, humanism or, God forbid, atheism amid the endless weekly clergy musings about faith in... Read More
Why Is Overt Christian Proselytizing Allowed on the Floor of Congress?
Last week, “America’s pastor” Billy Graham became the first religious leader ever to lie in honor at the US Capitol Rotunda, a precedent criticized... Read More
Making Common Cause with the Good Mrs. Parker
Seriously, I am not in denial about Christianity’s continuing tenacious hold on the American mind. But I’m an optimist, and I’ve noticed precious little is forever.... Read More