About the Contributors
Hemant Mehta is the Chair of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA) Board of Directors.
He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he graduated with honors in both Mathematics and Biology. While there, he also helped establish their first secular student group, Students WithOut Religious Dogma (SWORD). He is now earning his Masters in Math Education at DePaul University.
He has worked with the Center for Inquiry and is also an SSA representative to the Secular Coalition for America.
More recently, Hemant received national attention, including being featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, for his work as the “eBay Atheist.”
Hemant’s blog can be read at FriendlyAtheist.com and his book “I Sold My Soul on eBay” (WaterBrook Press) is now in bookstores everywhere.
He currently works as a high school Math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago.
If you would like Hemant to speak at your next convention or group meeting, or if you would like to reach him about other matters, please contact him using this form. Any email that is sent to him may be reprinted (in part or in full) in any format along with the sender’s information. (So don’t be evil.)
Hemant can discuss his “conversion” to atheism, his recent experiences going to church, as well as what he believes Christians/atheists are doing right and wrong.
He can speak in front of both Christian and atheist audiences.
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Mike Clawson is the founding pastor of Via Christus, an emerging church in Yorkville, IL. He met his wife Julie at Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) where he studied both Philosophy and Christian Education & Ministry, and also obtained a Masters in Intercultural Studies & Teaching English as a Second Language. Together they have an adventurous and energetic toddler named Emmaline Eowyn. Mike is originally from Michigan where his parents served at several Christian camps/retreat centers. Having grown up in the woods of northern Michigan, Mike enjoys horseback riding, hiking, and camping, as well as road trips with friends, traveling in Europe, strategy board games (RISK!), computer games, and Renaissance Faires. He spends a lot of time blogging at emergingpensees.com, reading texts on theology, social justice, or history (among other things), and playing with Emma. Mike also co-coordinates up/rooted, the Emergent Village cohort for the greater Chicago area, which meets monthly to discuss theology, ministry, and social justice. His primary passion is to transform the lives of people and the whole world for the better by pursuing Christ’s way of justice, mercy and love in his everyday life.
Mike got involved in Christian/atheist discussions as a result of Hemant’s original eBay Atheist project with Off the Map. Through his conversations at both the OTM blogs and here at FriendlyAtheist.com, Mike has come to a deep appreciation of atheist views, and highly values the conversations and positive transformations that occur on both sides when atheists and theists seek to understand one another better.
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One of the things Richard Wade enjoys the most is writing about himself in the third person so that all the cool things he says about himself don’t sound like bragging.
In a way he was born in the Temple of Science because his parents worked in a major Natural History museum as exhibit designers and illustrators. Their friends were paleontologists, geologists, entomologists, historians and the like, so Richard was brought up on a steady diet of science. As a child he enjoyed going out on archeological digs with the professionals or hunting for fossils. He has an extensive collection of fossils and looks forward to being one some day.
He has two Master’s degrees, the first in Art and the second in Educational Psychology. He has worked as an artist and as a Marriage and Family Counselor with many years in the specialization of addiction medicine, counseling more than ten thousand patients. He is now retired.
He lives in California and when he is not erasing wrinkles and blemishes from his self portraits he enjoys amateur astronomy with his big, manly telescope, hiking in the Sierras, fossil hunting and making figurative sculptures.
Richard’s motto is In Festivitas Veritas, or “in humor is truth.” As a contributor on this website he hopes to bring people of conflicting views together in positive dialogue by helping them to not take themselves too seriously. He’s very serious about that.
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Lindsey Kirth was born in 1987 and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Which means that, yes, she’s one of those crazy Mormons. Although she swears she doesn’t have any horns and she ain’t nobody’s third wife.
She’s currently attending a dinky community college in Taylorsville, Utah, and is working toward a degree in criminal psychology.
She started her blog www.lindseysrantings.com in November of 2007, after calling off her engagement to a jerk, and decided she’d much rather have a torrid love affair with the internet.
And so far, it’s going wonderfully.
Lindsey is excited to be contributing to this website and is especially excited about adding a splash of estrogen to this oh-so-testosterrific palette.
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