Ed Buckner has announced that he’ll be stepping down after two years as president of American Atheists. A press release on the AA website says he’ll retire as early as September, assuming a suitable replacement can be found. I’m sorry to see Ed go–I’ve known him for something like 15 years and have found him to be a consistently kind, well-spoken and thoughtful person. Of course, Ed won’t really “go” anywhere. I’m sure he’ll still be active in the atheist community, just not in a direct leadership role. Filling his shoes will be a difficult task.
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Ed Buckner stepping down from AA
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Podcast #83 – Secular Coalition at the White House
Monday, March 8th, 2010
John C. Snider with Christopher Hitchens, Emory University, February 26, 2010
American Atheists president Ed Buckner reports on the recent meeting between representatives of the Secular Coalition for America with White House officials.
Plus: We meet the Hitch! Allison joins us to talk about “The Only Subject Is Love,” a seminar we attended at Emory University featuring Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, and filmmaker Deepa Mehta (who is developing a film adaptation of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children). The event celebrates the opening of Rushdie’s archives at Emory. Surprises included spontaneous recitations of poetry (Hitchens selecting the heartwrenching “Dulce et Decorum est,” Rushdie the humorous “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”) And…we learned that Hitchens’ memoir–Hitch 22–is due out in June!
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
“Ufologist” and Young Earth Creationist Gary Bates of Creation Ministries International presented “Aliens, UFOs and the Bible” on July 18th at the Sewell Mill Baptist Church in Marietta, GA. We (John and Allison) were there, but the building did not spontaneously burst into flame, nor were there any clear-skies lightning strikes to manifest the ire of YHWH at the presence of infidels. As for Bates…thanks a LOT, Australia! For general creationist debunkage visit TalkOrigins.org. [Late-breaking Bonus: If you can stomach it, you can listen to Bates's entire baloneython in podcast format at the church's website--including the very session we sat in on!]
American Atheists president Ed Buckner delivers the invocation before a meeting of the Cobb County (Georgia) Board of Commissioners in Marietta. Yes, we know that “atheist invocation” is an oxymoron, but Ed used the opportunity to go meta, delivering a four-minute invocation on the idiocy of invocations. Go get ‘em, Ed!
AA’s Buckner delivers county invocation
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
On July 28th, American Atheists president Ed Buckner delivered the official invocation at a meeting of the Cobb County (Georgia) Board of Commissioners. He used the opportunity to deliver a polite 4-minute lecture on the stupidity of invocations. Buckner and others were plaintiffs in a recent lawsuit (Pelphrey v Cobb) in which the ACLU sued the county for showing favoritism to fundamentalist Protestant Christianity in its selection of…invokers? invocators? The county won the lawsuit but has opened the invocation (more or less) to any county resident upon request.
To see the video of Ed’s “invocation” click here.
Bonus: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on the incident and its aftermath on Thursday.
Buckner-Bocchino Debate at GA Tech
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
On the left is Ed Buckner (president, American Atheists); on the right is Peter Bocchino (president, Legacy of Truth Ministries) in debate at Georgia Tech on Tuesday, March 3rd. (Sorry, I didn’t catch the name of the moderator sitting in the middle.) The program, sponsored by the Campus Freethinkers, was titled “Reality–Discussions between Atheism and Christianity.”
Podcast #27 – Ed Buckner
Saturday, September 20th, 2008Interview with Ed Buckner, the newly appointed president of American Atheists. Ed was formerly an executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and at the time of his appointment to this new post was the Treasurer of the Atlanta Freethought Society.
For more about American Atheists, visit Atheists.org.
American Atheists Name Buckner New President
Saturday, September 13th, 2008Ed Buckner (currently Treasurer of the Atlanta Freethought Society) has been named the new president of American Atheists, Inc. He fills the position previous held by the legendary Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Ellen Johnson, and (Acting President) Frank R. Zindler. Ed has long been active in the freethought movement, including a stint as executive director for the Council for Secular Humanism.
Podcast #50 – American Atheists Convention
Thursday, April 16th, 2009(more…)
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