Roy Speckhardt
Posts by Roy Speckhardt (page 4)
What’s the Best Way to Challenge Religious Intrusion?
How many people of faith take seriously the biblical admonition against public prayer—“Be careful about not living righteously merely to be seen by people,”... Read More
“Under God” Makes a Mockery of Religious Freedom
Feb. 10, 2014 was the 60th anniversary of the original congressional move in 1954 that added “under God” to the official Pledge of Allegiance,... Read More
Atheist, Humanist, Secular: Why Fight Over Labels?
No matter how you look at it, the nontheist movement in the U.S. is experiencing momentous growth. According to a Harris poll, those who... Read More
When Will We Have More Atheists in Congress?
AHA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt writes in The Huffington Post this week on the need for more secular elected leaders to represent the growing... Read More
Let’s Recognize and Reignite Humanism’s Feminist Legacy
This article first appeared in Patheos on September 02, 2012. Popular bloggers such as Jen McCreight and Greta Christina are vocal proponents of a... Read More
Two Problems With the Push for Vouchers
In his latest Huffington Post article, AHA executive director Roy Speckhardt condemns recent efforts in Louisiana to allow public funding of religious private schools
Modernizing Secular Addiction Recovery
This article was first published on Patheos.com. Men and women of all ethnic backgrounds and religious or nonreligious affiliations suffer from debilitating addictions, which... Read More