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 ...

Each Polk County Commission meeting begins with a prayer led by a church leader, or in some cases, with a secular invocation by an atheist group. If the commission approves a change to the process ...

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 ...