At Boston College, this weekend, former House Chaplain Conroy spoke about his life as a Jesuit and how that informed his ministry. During that discussion, he proudly recounted his discrimination against humanists. He said he denied a request for accommodation to give a humanist invocation, that it was just “rah rah fervorino” that he would […]
Join Jason Torpy, President of MAAF and Army Captain, and Jason Lemieux, CFI Director of Government Affairs and former Marine Sergeant, for training on advocacy about and by military members and veterans. Both are also Iraq war veterans. The discussion will be hosted by the Sarah Levin, Director of Grass Roots and Community Programs for […]
Around the world, the Happy Human is widely known and widely recognized. However, in the Dutch military, they wear a different crest. The reason is mostly just that that’s the way it has been for 50 years. The Dutch military has had Humanist Chaplains for that long and at that time, the Happy Human was […]
This January, the Dutch military agreed to send representatives to visit the US. The United States has a troubling shortage of Humanist chaplains. Despite an promising memorandum from the Department of Defense last year, 0 is the exact number of Humanist Chaplains currently serving in the military while atheists and agnostics now outnumber all non-Christian […]
MAAF is remembering Tori Aletheia who died last week. MAAF featured her life-saving police work in 2014. Her husband Zach is receiving a lot of support from Iowa Atheists & Freethinkers. Their last name, “Aletheia,” means truth. They chose it together in favor of their old names. Included below is Zach’s short remembrance to the […]