Following yesterday’s Supreme Court decision holding sectarian legislative prayer constitutional, the American Humanist Association has announced a new program identifying secular and atheist speakers ...

TAVARES — Instead of a pastor or chaplain reciting a prayer, an atheist delivered a secular invocation to residents and staff at a City Council meeting earlier this month. Jocelyn Williamson of the ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — A “secular invocation” presented at the start of a Jan. 11 public meeting triggered a boycott of sorts by a couple of City Council members before being interrupted by Mayor Warren ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decision allowing sectarian prayers before government meetings is prompting atheists to offer secular invocations. The court ruled 5-4 that invocations can refer to ...

(RNS) What do atheists “pray” for? Municipalities around the country are finding out, as nonbelievers of all stripes — atheists, humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers — begin giving invocations ...

State Rep. Athena Salman, D-Tempe, is in the middle of a national controversy over the meaning of prayer after she gave an invocation last Tuesday to begin the daily Arizona House session. After ...

After Greece vs. Galloway, Arizona Rep. Juan Mendez tells RNS why atheists should offer invocations at government meetings, and why all people should support them. After the U.S. Supreme Court Greece ...

Major newspapers across this country use front-page, “above-the-fold” articles for important, timely news. On June 9, The Times Leader placed a headline (“Activist seeks to send message with ‘secular ...

County commission at odds with atheist%2C agnostic groups over invocations Commissioners say they should be limited to representatives of %27faith-based%27 community ...

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State Rep. Athena Salman, D-Tempe, is in the middle of a national controversy over the meaning of prayer after she gave an invocation last Tuesday to begin the daily Arizona House session. After ...