HNN Audio Podcast Archives
Duncan Crary and Jes Constantine are the co-hosts of the Humanist Network News (HNN) Audio Podcast, a monthly one-hour talk show created by the Institute for Humanist Studies.
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HNN Podcast: Atheism and Civil Rights
2006-09-27
The theme of this HNN Audio Podcast #11 is civil liberties and religious discrimination. Matt Cherry, IHS executive director and president of the United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief, is interviewed by a Canadian talk show host about the Pope's recent remarks about Islam. Derek Araujo, a New York City-based attorney, speaks about the future of church/state separation in the United States. Margaret Downey, president of the Atheist Alliance International and founder of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia, speaks about her efforts to stop discrimination against atheists and gays in the Boy Scouts of America. And Michael Malec, board member of the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association, speaks about lobbying for the American Civil Liberties Union in Louisiana.
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HNN Podcast: 30 Days
2006-08-30
In HNN Audio Podcast #10 we speak to a member of the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association about the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We interview Brenda Frei, the atheist who spent one month living with an evangelical Christian family for the reality tv show 30 Days. Margaret Downey, the new president of Atheist Alliance International, makes an historic announcement about her organization's annual conference (which falls on the same day as the annual conference of American Atheists). And the International Humanist and Ethical Youth Organization interviews international humanist youth workers about a variety of topics regarding humanism, religious extremism and the United States' human rights record.
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HNN podcast: The Republican War on Science
2006-07-26
In HNN Audio Podcast #9 we interview Chris Mooney about his book The Republican War on Science. We also talk to Lori Lipman Brown, Secular Coalition for America lobbyist, about same-sex marriage and stem-cell research public policy in Washington D.C. Judy Disco, IHS director of administration, speaks personally about same-sex marriage. Bioethicist Dr. Ana Lita talks about the ethics of human cloning. And Cartoonist Jeff Swenson reviews the new TV show, "Psych." Jes Constantine, IHS systems analyst and web programmer, co-hosts the show with Duncan Crary.
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HNN Podcast: Newdow, Atheist Comedian & Religious Supeheroes
2006-06-28
In HNN Audio Podcast #8, we invite a lawyer, a comedian and a whole bunch of superheroes on our show. We also say goodbye and wish good luck to humanist lobbyist Tim Gordinier.
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HNN Podcast: Undercover With Christian Coalition
2006-05-24
Just how far would you go to keep an eye on your enemy? Larry Jones, president of the Institute for Humanist Studies served nearly four years as a co-founder of a local chapter of the Christian Coalition. A second generation atheist and tenured humanist, Jones spent his time with the Coalition helping a watchdog organization identify "stealth" Christian Coalition school board candidates. This installment of HNN Audio #7 focuses on a single story: a humanist recounts his time spent observing the religious right as a fully embedded member of the Christian Coalition.
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HNN Podcast: Humanism in Norway
2006-04-26
Is America a Christian nation? In HNN Audio Podcast #6, host Duncan Crary speaks with Dr. Timothy Gordinier about his recent debate with a Christian fundamentalist lobbyist on separation of church and state. How can the humanist movement attract more young people? Matt Cherry, executive director of the Institute for Humanist Studies, speaks with Stephanie Kirmer. The Norwegian Humanist Association has 68,000 members out of a population of just 4.5 million. Roar Johnsen, president of the Norwegian Humanist Association joins Duncan Crary, Matt Cherry and IHS President Larry Jones for a discussion at the Institute for Humanist Studies.
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HNN Podcast: Student Freethinkers
2006-03-29
In HNN Audio #5 audio podcast, we learn about the Secular Student Alliance. We also ask some freethinking students what their top priority is. HNN listeners tell us what they think about the eBay atheist. And, lastly, what's the deal with Tony Blair, God and the Iraq War? Caspar Melville, editor of the British magazine New Humanist, explains politics and religion in the U.K.
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HNN Podcast: Atheist for Sale
2006-02-28
In HNN Audio Podast #4 we interview three freethinking cartoonists about the Mohammed cartoon controversy. We also speak to an atheist who "sold his soul" on eBay. And an African American freethinker sings an old Negro Spiritual with new secular lyrics.
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| HNN Podcast: Black American Freethinkers
2006-01-25
In this show, we speak with two Black American freethinkers about what they are doing to attract more African-Americans to humanism. Also, Caspar Melville of the New Humanist magazine, refutes claims by French politicians that French gangsta rap was the cause of the recent riots in Paris.
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| HNN Podcast: Black American Freethinkers
2005-12-20
An atheist talks about the Santa Clause myth. Humanists in Nepal fight superstition. What does a humanist lobbyist do?
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| HNN Podcast: Why did you become a humanist?
2005-11-23
Matt Cherry talks about how and why he became a humanist. Marty Mulligan on how podcasting can help humanism. Larry Jones about providing grants to humanists.
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