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Posts Tagged ‘convocation’

Secular convocation vs fundie radio

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

So I’ve been having a media circus in Edmonton here over trying to change one line from the convocation charge. The best so far was the radio interview I agreed to without looking into (I still would have done it had I known).

The station is AM 930 The Light. On their website is featured ads for Focus on the Family and Christ Centred Professionals Club (among others). This showed me that it would be a very en”light”ening interview.

I recorded the stream and posted it on my blog. Check it out there and see how far into the call ins you can get (hint: they advertise Expelled several times).

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UAAA keeps fighting for secular convocation

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

My group made the front of the city section of the local paper today, in our crusade for a secular convocation.

It’s been a busy few months, but we’ve finally ascertained meetings with the right levels of administration and could potentially see this resolved by the end of November (university administrations move pretty slowly).

Here’s an exerpt (the full story will be taken down in 30 days, after which you can find it on my blog):

A student group at the University of Alberta is fighting to make the school’s convocation ceremony a God-free event.

Specifically, the U of A Atheists and Agnostics society objects to one line in the service, when the chancellor charges graduates to use their degrees for “the glory of God and the honour of your country.”

The group is petitioning the university to either remove the line or change the wording to respect their “God-optional” views.

The god-optional refers to the last story the Edmonton Journal ran on my group.

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